Douglas Rushkoff

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Douglas Rushkoff (2019)

Douglas Rushkoff (born February 18, 1961 ) is an American author, lecturer, columnist and musician.

biography

Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University . He moved to Los Angeles and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from the California Institute of the Arts . Today he teaches media theory in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University .

Since the mid-1990s, in addition to his work as a columnist, Rushkoff has published numerous specialist books and novels on topics of network culture , open source and the cyberpunk movement, of which at least “Cyberia” , “Playing the Future” (“Chaos Kids”) and “ Ecstacy Club " (" Virtuality Club ") also appeared in German. He is considered one of the protagonists of the cyberpunk movement and as such worked as a consultant for the United Nations Commission on World Culture and the Sony Corporation .

In late 2003, Rushkoff was also a brief keyboardist on Psychic TV .

Publications

  • 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)
  • Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back (Random House, 2009)
  • Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age (OR Books, 2010)
  • Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (Current Hardcover, 2013)

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personal data
SURNAME Rushkoff, Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, columnist, and musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1961