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.