TagDouglas Rushkoff

Signum Press

Signum Press is a cool online zine based in the northwest and has featured writers such as R.U. Sirius and Douglas Rushkoff. They’ve covered all sorts of interesting stuff. From their Kool Keith interview:

I’m still crazy. I will still stick a screwdriver in your back if I have to. I was in the mental hospital because I’m a quick-tempered guy. It’s like with Dr. Dooom, if I didn’t write that stuff, I probably would be a mad psycho, someone who spends the rest of his life in jail. I think rap saved me, allowing me to get out a lot of my pressures on paper. At the hospital, I was getting therapy about knowing my own strength, because at the time I felt like I could just go up and punch a gorilla in the face. I actually felt like going into the Bronx Zoo at times, climbing over the cages and punching the gorilla up in the face.

Signum Press

(via Boing Boing)

Is media saturation a bad thing?

Slate’s running a pretty good review of Todd Gitlin’s Media Unlimited. It’s obvious that we’re constantly being immersed in media and advertising, but according to the reviewers Gitlin fails to prove that it’s a bad thing. A couple of Gitlin’s colleagues at NYU have written some interesting books on the positive effects of new media: Douglas Rushkoff’s Playing the Future and Mitchell Stephens’ The Rise of the Image and the Fall of the Word.

A Few Catch-up Links…

Sorry about the lack of updates folks, just been busy as hell in the “real world.” Check out the following: Shamans set up code of ethics to fight shams (link via Plastic), Nanotech looms large for meds (link via Disinfo), and the new Douglas Rushkoff book will be open source (link via the Barbelith Underground). [Update: The book, Exit Strategy had “open source” annotations, but the text has since been taken down]

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