Posts tagged: Media Squat

mediageek 10 September 2009: Douglas Rushkoff on everyday action and bottom-up media.

This week we listen to part two of my interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of the new book Life Inc., How the World Became a Corporation and How We Can Take It Back. We discuss the importance and vitality of everyday independent and collective action, and the joy of grassroots, bottom up media.

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mediageek 10 September 2009 broadcast quality mp3

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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090910.mp3[/mp3]

mediageek 3 September 2009: Douglas Rushkoff on Life, Inc

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and grassroots media maker who recently published the new book Life, Inc. In the book Rushkoff explores how our corporate-dominated life came to be, looking to the corporation’s origins in the Renaissance and its path to modern hegemony. All the while Rushkoff contends that this path wasn’t inevitable, but is the result of specific events over time. In this interview Rushkoff discusses this history and how modern corporatism alienates us from our communities and each other.

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mediageek 3 September 2009 broadcast quality mp3

Listen Now:
[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090903.mp3[/mp3]

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