Irvington Alerts
Futurist Douglas Rushkoff - Climate Talk Jan 15th
This month, the Irvington Green Climate Talk hosts author, media analyst and futurist Douglas Rushkoff.
Join us for food, inspiration and conversation on January 15th, 7pm at the Irvington Public Library.
Topic: Remaking the Landscape without Remaking People: Toward a new theory of change.
When we think about solving the climate crisis, we often assume that the first step is to get people to change. But bestselling author and intellectual Douglas Rushkoff says we don’t need to “get people” to do anything—we can create a better world by recognizing the underlying assumptions behind our economy and institutions, and shifting them to work for us rather than against us.
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He serves as a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.
Find the latest on our events at https://www.irvingtongreen.org/events
Join us for food, inspiration and conversation on January 15th, 7pm at the Irvington Public Library.
Topic: Remaking the Landscape without Remaking People: Toward a new theory of change.
When we think about solving the climate crisis, we often assume that the first step is to get people to change. But bestselling author and intellectual Douglas Rushkoff says we don’t need to “get people” to do anything—we can create a better world by recognizing the underlying assumptions behind our economy and institutions, and shifting them to work for us rather than against us.
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He serves as a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.
Find the latest on our events at https://www.irvingtongreen.org/events