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Personal Democracy Forum Speech

Douglas Rushkoff
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This is the opening ‘invocation' I did for the Personal Democracy Forum last week, and a preview of some of the concepts coming in my next book, Corporatized. The talk looks and feels a little freeform to me; I'm developing the chain of logic as I go along. But I'm so immersed in this line of thought right now that I think it does make sense.

Still, as an example of what I look like when I'm teaching, check it out.

 

 

Here's the mp3 audio file of the same talk. Opening Invocation, Personal Democracy Forum, mp3 New York, June 24, 2008.

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catalyzing and inspiring.

Submitted by newritual on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 10:29.

What Douglas does here is catalyzing and inspiring. He is a great teacher. The context of the forum, subtitled "Rebooting the System", speaks the language of programming, and Douglas is able to invoke the idea of media literacy as a high magickal art, empowering the individual with tools that will aid in the decoding/recoding of the infosphere.

We dreamt the blogosphere into existence. Now we seek ways to expand on a new era of community, of participation.

Thank you Douglas Rushkoff.

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Thanks

Submitted by Morgan Maher on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 14:22.

The 2008 PDF has been a great source if inspiration. Thanks Douglas.

I "attended" the PDF via Mark Pesce "furiously tweeting" a play-by-play of the event.

I essentially caught the vibe and got the wow of the event as it was happening, via Twitter and Mark while I sat by a river.

Indicative, I feel, of the change the PDF connects to and is encouraging.

 

Awesome

Submitted by Philip H. Farber on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 19:32.
If the invocation inspired more participation, then well worth the 10 minutes! Most people have been trained to be spectators in their own lives. We need a paradigm shift toward individuals who recognize that it is up to all of us to participate in the world and our lives. Great stuff! I'm looking forward to the new book.

Rushkoff Rocks

Submitted by Propaganda Anonymous on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 10:47.

Propaganda Anonymous

This talk was a great synthesis of McLuhan, Robert Anton Wilson, and Doug's own material. Very cool

McLuhan in the sense that Doug is following Marshal's philosophical/sociological contribution of the 'Tetrad of media effects' showing what has been enhanced, retrieved, minimized, and made obsolete during and since the Renaissance.

I like to think that he is holding the flame to what RAW spoke about in his 'Non-Euclidean Politics' viewpoint, specifically the idea of the 'Individualist-Mutualist' political perspective. This follows the line of some early American Anarchist thinkers like Lysander Spooner, Josiah Warren, William Greene, Benjamin Tucker, etc.

As well as a bunch other cool thinkers.

And I see Doug's own process maturing when he builds on the idea of Branding. This is his strong contribution I believe. He is breaking shit down in chunks and bits so all us working at sharping our media studies skills can take this in and digest. Then developing and/or enhancing our own forms of pattern recognition, further adding to more intelligence and free thought. Guided by good use of logic and the appreciation of paradox

Again, Rushkoff Rocks!

Awesome

Submitted by Brad on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 21:23.

I am astounded at your ability to improvise a chain of logic on the spot like that.

The importance of programming is a recurring theme in your work. However I can't say I understand why this would have such massive leverage. We can cut out some commercial services and advertising, and make programs that are better designed, but I don't see the paradigm shift. 

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