WFMU: The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff: Playlist from May 11, 2009

Listener comments!
	7:10pm Bad Ronald: Greetz to Douglas et al! Praxis - Wotagreatwurd! Yer opener reminds me of a debate I witnessed in the 80's tween Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin re: Change - from within or without...
	7:10pm Brian Oregon: In neomarxist/critical social theory (for what it's worth), praxis is 'theory in action', that is, theory put into practice.
	7:12pm coin of the realm: music please! uh. age of aquarius is here. get real
	7:13pm Brian Oregon: Does Life Inc. encompass the history of the development of modern consumerism (Jackson Lears, Colin Campbell, Stuart Ewen, etc.), which was interwoven with the development of advertising as public culture?
	7:13pm Bad Ronald: You no like-a de Ramones?
	7:14pm Janine: Douglas says 'yes'
	7:15pm Nancy Reagan: Just say no.
	7:18pm Brian Oregon: You can't really say "no" and practice modern lifecraft: individuals are responsible for maintaining a livelihood (making money) and constructing an identity from fields of possibility differentially accessible to a great extent based on ability to pay. That form of self/identity/life was developed at the same time as modernity (industrial consumer capitalism).
	7:21pm Legba Carrefour: I'm pretty sure the Nancy Reagan comment was a joke, but I think your follow up is a legitimate point that should be expanded upon. We should be saying no and yes that does involve a rejection of most of modern life. Refusal of this entire system is what we need at a time when our lives are doing everything but allowing us to live. I'm hoping these are the days where we get the space to start finding alternatives.
	7:24pm Brian Oregon: Legba -- I agree and it's one of the reasons I moved from southern California to rural-ish eastern Oregon. I can see the possibilities more clearly here. A good way to start is to eat food grown as close as possible to yr home.
	7:27pm Doron: I lived for a while in a semi rural environment that is pretty enlightened in some respects (ithaca) but there are cultural exchanges that are possible only in big major cities, that ultimately held more appeal to me. I wonder what the ideas spell for big cities.
	7:27pm Nancy Reagan: Yeah, I was being facetious...
	7:28pm Brian Oregon: Sorry Nancy... PS you have a large head relative to your body.
	7:29pm texas scott: amen,Brian.growing your own food and being more independant is a great start.you made a good move.
	7:30pm Legba Carrefour: I'm hoping people get more willing to fight for control of the city and eventually a subversion of the metropolis as we know it. There's been a lot of talk recently about how the metropolis as we know is just the product of a certain class taking advantage of the cities that we've all produced in common. And I'd like to see the commons reassert itself in the city.
	7:32pm Legba Carrefour: Michael Hardt and Toni Negri have a book coming out called Common Wealth that addresses some of that. You can hear Hardt talk about that here a bit: http://is.gd/yXSN (it's about 15 minutes in).
	7:33pm Brian Oregon: I do miss the cultural activities of the big city. But here, it's more DIY, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I think cities can be remade without the overclass in control, but it will necessarily be harder because you have to coordinate more people. For some pretty radical ideas, see the book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living, out recently from South End Press.
	7:34pm Nancy Reagan: No worries Brian, my head prevents my body from blowing away in a strong wind. btw - I hear OR is a nice place for vineyards.
	7:34pm Legba Carrefour: And there's some neat stuff in this piece called "20 Theses on the Subversion of the Metropolis" that's a bit on the situationist/insurrectionary edge. The PDF is also quite pretty (it's done by the Institute for Experiential Freedom) http://is.gd/yXUE
	7:38pm Brian Oregon: That does look good, Legba -- thanks for the link! Nancy -- lots of vineyards, mostly in the Willamette and Rogue Valleys, west of the Cascades.
	7:38pm Legba Carrefour: I think it's going to be easier in some ways. Largely because everything that makes the city work was made in common. And I mean the cultural aspects, how people relate to each other, the communities people have built--all of that was part of a commons and the rest of this nonsense was built on top of that structure to extract value from it for someone else.
	7:46pm can't hear your awesome words: TALK TO THE MICROPHONE
	7:56pm Someone who isn't me should talk. :-P: I'm really into this idea of a currency based on valuing a specific kind of labor like community building. For one thing, it seems like it would lend itself to a hyper-local democracy. I'm curious how you could network that globally though.
	7:57pm Someone who isn't me should talk. :-P: Although maybe I should stop always thinking about how we need to globally connect everything. Maybe that's a really modern impulse that's been beaten into by globalization.
	8:01pm Bad Ronald: Let's flout controlled substances laws.

The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff: Playlist from May 11, 2009

The Media Squat is freeform, bottom-up, open source radio looking towards similarly open source, bottom-up solutions to some of the problems engendered by our relentlessly top-down society.

Each show will initiate a series of discussions, which will themselves comprise part of an expanding wiki of resources, support material, and community-generated content.

This isn't pure '60s or Whole Earth radicalism and self-sufficiency (though it's certainly related) but a 21st Century, cyberpunk reclamation of all technologies and social contracts as essentially open source, up for discussion, and open to modification. It's an application of the hacker ethic and net collectivism to everything, done in the spirit of fun and adventure.

Ongoing forums with host, guests, and listeners take place at http://www.mediasquat.net.

<-- Previous playlist | Back to The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff playlists | Next playlist -->

May 11, 2009: Praxis

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Ramones	We Want the Airwaves "We Want the Airwaves" by "Ramones"
Douglas Rushkoff	Intro spiel "Intro spiel" by "Douglas Rushkoff"
Praxis is NOT theory	"Praxis is NOT theory"
Douglas Rushkoff	Working for the apprenticeship
Douglas Rushkoff	Life Inc. in a movie
Douglas Rushkoff	Powre of Jeanine Saunders Praxis
Douglas Rushkoff	Lafe Inc. The Movie
Douglas Rushkoff	P)raxis part 1 - The movie
Douglas Rushkoff	Thinking about currencies
Love and Rockets	SO ALIVE "SO ALIVE" by "Love and Rockets"
Douglas Rushkoff	Conversation with the Culturvators - aka, The Bloomington Think tank
Douglas Rushkoff	The Bloomington Think Tank, aka the 'Culturvators,' are a group of young people in Bloomington, IN
Douglas Rushkoff	who are exploring and enacting hyper-local methods of creating, supporting, and improving permaculture practices,
Douglas Rushkoff	local economic initiatives, and community.
Douglas Rushkoff	They are promoters of and participants in organic agriculture, the art community, and local currency/bartering.
Douglas Rushkoff	Introducing the Culturevators
Douglas Rushkoff	They are promoters of and participants in organic agriculture, the art community, and local currency/bartering.
Douglas Rushkoff	Culturvation is the process of bridging the gaps of individuation that prevent us from creating and sustaining working relationships with our neighbors.
Douglas Rushkoff	Culturvators are those who break down barriers to form the social groups that produce change.
Douglas Rushkoff	In short, many hands make light work, and the Culturvators get those hands to shake so the work can get done. The Dome is a project.
Douglas Rushkoff	The Dome is a close loop system
Douglas Rushkoff	The commons as a norm
Douglas Rushkoff	2.0 version of hippydom
Douglas Rushkoff	Experimenting with the past (not towards Utopia.)
Douglas Rushkoff	Investing in local production
Douglas Rushkoff	Localization is ok. (Not a NASDAC business plan.)
Douglas Rushkoff	Globalization NOT
Douglas Rushkoff	The alternative isn't scary. Its collaborative.
Douglas Rushkoff	Collaboration is smaoll, but small is beautiful.
Douglas Rushkoff	Depression was a positive thing for people's humanity
Douglas Rushkoff	Food production is where it starts.
Douglas Rushkoff	Permaculture with the Culturvators
Douglas Rushkoff	Starting to take phone calls
Douglas Rushkoff	Legba on line 1 "Legba on line 1" by "Douglas Rushkoff"
Douglas Rushkoff	Matt with Open Gotham (a think tank) on line
Douglas Rushkoff	Small companies run into limits
Douglas Rushkoff	Limits with algorithmic calculation of social valuation
Douglas Rushkoff	Reputation based currencies
Douglas Rushkoff	Doron from Media Squatters mailing list
Douglas Rushkoff	The Diggers (agariam communists) in old England
Douglas Rushkoff	Utopian ideals are met with resistance
Douglas Rushkoff	Small groups meet with sucess when its decentralized
Douglas Rushkoff	Handmade toys don't scale
Douglas Rushkoff	Networking tools is how you can cope with decentralized effor

RSS feeds for The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Douglas Rushkoff | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff |

Listener comments!
	7:10pm Bad Ronald: Greetz to Douglas et al! Praxis - Wotagreatwurd! Yer opener reminds me of a debate I witnessed in the 80's tween Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin re: Change - from within or without...
	7:10pm Brian Oregon: In neomarxist/critical social theory (for what it's worth), praxis is 'theory in action', that is, theory put into practice.
	7:12pm coin of the realm: music please! uh. age of aquarius is here. get real
	7:13pm Brian Oregon: Does Life Inc. encompass the history of the development of modern consumerism (Jackson Lears, Colin Campbell, Stuart Ewen, etc.), which was interwoven with the development of advertising as public culture?
	7:13pm Bad Ronald: You no like-a de Ramones?
	7:14pm Janine: Douglas says 'yes'
	7:15pm Nancy Reagan: Just say no.
	7:18pm Brian Oregon: You can't really say "no" and practice modern lifecraft: individuals are responsible for maintaining a livelihood (making money) and constructing an identity from fields of possibility differentially accessible to a great extent based on ability to pay. That form of self/identity/life was developed at the same time as modernity (industrial consumer capitalism).
	7:21pm Legba Carrefour: I'm pretty sure the Nancy Reagan comment was a joke, but I think your follow up is a legitimate point that should be expanded upon. We should be saying no and yes that does involve a rejection of most of modern life. Refusal of this entire system is what we need at a time when our lives are doing everything but allowing us to live. I'm hoping these are the days where we get the space to start finding alternatives.
	7:24pm Brian Oregon: Legba -- I agree and it's one of the reasons I moved from southern California to rural-ish eastern Oregon. I can see the possibilities more clearly here. A good way to start is to eat food grown as close as possible to yr home.
	7:27pm Doron: I lived for a while in a semi rural environment that is pretty enlightened in some respects (ithaca) but there are cultural exchanges that are possible only in big major cities, that ultimately held more appeal to me. I wonder what the ideas spell for big cities.
	7:27pm Nancy Reagan: Yeah, I was being facetious...
	7:28pm Brian Oregon: Sorry Nancy... PS you have a large head relative to your body.
	7:29pm texas scott: amen,Brian.growing your own food and being more independant is a great start.you made a good move.
	7:30pm Legba Carrefour: I'm hoping people get more willing to fight for control of the city and eventually a subversion of the metropolis as we know it. There's been a lot of talk recently about how the metropolis as we know is just the product of a certain class taking advantage of the cities that we've all produced in common. And I'd like to see the commons reassert itself in the city.
	7:32pm Legba Carrefour: Michael Hardt and Toni Negri have a book coming out called Common Wealth that addresses some of that. You can hear Hardt talk about that here a bit: http://is.gd/yXSN (it's about 15 minutes in).
	7:33pm Brian Oregon: I do miss the cultural activities of the big city. But here, it's more DIY, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I think cities can be remade without the overclass in control, but it will necessarily be harder because you have to coordinate more people. For some pretty radical ideas, see the book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living, out recently from South End Press.
	7:34pm Nancy Reagan: No worries Brian, my head prevents my body from blowing away in a strong wind. btw - I hear OR is a nice place for vineyards.
	7:34pm Legba Carrefour: And there's some neat stuff in this piece called "20 Theses on the Subversion of the Metropolis" that's a bit on the situationist/insurrectionary edge. The PDF is also quite pretty (it's done by the Institute for Experiential Freedom) http://is.gd/yXUE
	7:38pm Brian Oregon: That does look good, Legba -- thanks for the link! Nancy -- lots of vineyards, mostly in the Willamette and Rogue Valleys, west of the Cascades.
	7:38pm Legba Carrefour: I think it's going to be easier in some ways. Largely because everything that makes the city work was made in common. And I mean the cultural aspects, how people relate to each other, the communities people have built--all of that was part of a commons and the rest of this nonsense was built on top of that structure to extract value from it for someone else.
	7:46pm can't hear your awesome words: TALK TO THE MICROPHONE
	7:56pm Someone who isn't me should talk. :-P: I'm really into this idea of a currency based on valuing a specific kind of labor like community building. For one thing, it seems like it would lend itself to a hyper-local democracy. I'm curious how you could network that globally though.
	7:57pm Someone who isn't me should talk. :-P: Although maybe I should stop always thinking about how we need to globally connect everything. Maybe that's a really modern impulse that's been beaten into by globalization.
	8:01pm Bad Ronald: Let's flout controlled substances laws.

The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff: Playlist from May 11, 2009

Listener comments!

(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson