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Rushkoff, Douglas

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Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is a New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture.

Biography and ideas

Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He moved to Los Angeles and pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from California Institute of the Arts. Later he took up a post-graduate fellowship from the American Film Institute.

Today, he teaches media theory at New York University's (NYU) Interactive Telecommunications Program. Rushkoff is known for being an active member of the cyberpunk movement and was the online associate of Timothy Leary. His views on cyberculture and the media made him a sought after advisor and consultant with many organizations and companies, including the United Nations Commission on World Culture and the Sony corporation.

Though an advocate for new technologies, his views lean towards an open source use of technology, making him a founding member of Technorealism. This extends to his broader philosophy as the founder of an online community for discussion of Judaism and related issues, called Open Source Judaism. In the book Media Virus, he expounds on various terms such as meta-media and tactical media especially in relation to popular culture media such as television.

In 2003 Rushkoff was keyboard player for a short-term line-up of Psychic TV.

Works

Books

Stoned Free -with Patrick Wells (Loompanics Unlimited, 1995) - ?Original Publication?
Cyberia:Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (Clinamen Press Ltd., 1994)
The GenX Reader (Ballantine, 1994)
Media Virus: Hidden Agendas In Popular Culture (Ballantine, 1994)
Playing the Future: What We Can Learn From Digital Kids -Children of Chaos in the UK (Riverhead Books, 1996)
Ecstasy Club A Novel (HarperEdge, 1997)
Coercion: Why We Listen To What "They" Say (Penguin Putnam, 2000)
Exit Strategy (Bull, in the UK) (fiction) (Soft Skull Press, 2002)
Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism (Crown Publishers, 2003)
Open Source Democracy: How Online Communication is Changing Offline Politics (Demos, 2003)
Club Zero-G (graphic novel, with artist Steph Dumais) (The Disinformation Company, 2004)
Get Back In The Box: Innovation From The Inside Out (CollinsBusiness, 2005)

He is currently writing an on-going comic book series for DC Comics Vertigo imprint entitled Testament with art and cover by Liam Sharp.
In addition to Testament, he recently revealed on the Get Illuminated podcast that he is going to be work on another comic series, as well as another non-fiction book under the supervision of John Brockman, which he stated will be "The book!".