The Esoteric State of the Union: Magic, Will, and the New Neighborhood with Mitch Horowitz
Ep. 353
Is magic just "positive thinking," or is it a causative force that can reshape reality? Rushkoff sits down with occult historian and author Mitch Horowitz (Occult America, Daydream Believer) to explore the boundaries of will, belief, and the material world.
Is It Fascism or Just a Lack of Impulse Control? With Jonathan Larsen
Ep. 352
We are no longer waiting for the other shoe to drop: We are living in the aftermath. Rushkoff sits down with Jonathan Larsen, editor of The Fucking News, to ask the question: Now that we are soaking in authoritarianism, how do we get out?
Become the Ground: How to Build Resistance When the Other Shoe Drops
Ep. 351
The other shoe finally dropped. We are no longer waiting for authoritarianism to arrive; we are soaking in it.
Rushkoff argues that the time for speculation, strategizing about political optics, and "preparing for what comes next" is over.
We Are Time Travelers: Retrocausality & The Long Self with Eric Wargo
Ep. 350
Multidisciplinary researcher and author Eric Wargo joins Rushkoff to help us decolonize our minds from the linear march of deterministic doom.
You're Not Crazy: Reality Has Grown Absurd
Ep. 349
If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone.
Tom Llewellyn: Is Sharing the New Satanism?
Ep. 348
Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, explores the power of Libraries of Things, mutual aid, and community-run infrastructure as practical alternatives to extraction-based economics.
Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary
Ep. 347
Ari Kuschnir, AI storyteller and artist, takes us deep into the alchemy of AI storytelling as a form of social practice and activist imagination.
Cracks in the Pavement
Ep. 346
Rushkoff discusses why the urgency and inevitability of our situation calls for us to consider the impossible.
Vicki Robin: Parable of the Tribes
Ep. 345
Vicki Robin, author of classic books like Your Money or Your Life and Blessing and The Hands That Feed Us, and Rushkoff seek to embrace this challenging moment by embracing one another. Robin shares how growing older shifts your perspective from the personal to the universal, and why the questions we've been asking our whole lives might matter less than how we show up for each other.
Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization
Ep. 344
Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and integrator, helps us investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability and develop the patterns of thought we need to get through to the other side.
Arden Leigh: Chasing the Hungry Ghosts
Ep. 343
Arden Leigh, the creator and facilitator of The Re-Patterning Project and front woman of Arden and the Wolves, helps us negotiate a new relationship to our individual and collective creative power.
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…Except to Each Other
Ep. 342
Could the end of employment be the beginning of something better? Rushkoff traces the history of work from medieval markets to AI automation to find hope in the cracks of collapse. He shows how the loss of “jobs” could open space for cooperation, creativity, and real human connection.