Favoriting The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff: Playlist from September 28, 2009 Favoriting

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Favoriting September 28, 2009: The Media Squat for September 28nd, 2009

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Ramones  We Want the Airwaves   Favoriting Anthology, Hey Ho, lets go! 
Ramones  We Want the Airwaves   Favoriting Anthology, Hey Ho, lets go! 


Listener comments!

  6:01pm
Charles-A.:

Welcome to The Media Squat. where Douglas Rushkoff … shares.

Pull up a square of tile and sit your butts down..
  6:02pm
Charles-A.:

I got a declarative statement right here. :-)

Oy, the Canadian dollar, the Japanese Yen, the Chinese Reminimbi, the Euro and most of the other currencies are faring depressingly well against the US dollar.

I'm a Canadian watching my US real estate holdings shrink almost as badly as they did during the mortgage debacle. <sigh>
  6:04pm
Charles-A.:

I was watching, and it was fun.
  6:06pm
Charles-A.:

What about Stewart Brand? :-)
  6:06pm
david:

theres no such thing as progression. maintaining our documentation of exploration is the greatest answer.
  6:08pm
Charles-A.:

Well, that's progress for you. :-)
  6:08pm
chom:

the concrete I'm sitting on is cold, Inc.
  6:09pm
felipe:

I think it is possible to use BRAND in a subversive and positive way.
I ran an artists run project in chile called "Galeria Chilena"
please check this web site:
http://www.lanubeloca.org/Galeria%20Chilena%20Home.html
our gallery was NOMADIC, it logo was a heart that changed with each exhibition.
  6:09pm
Charles-A.:

Watch out for falling, flailing tautologies.
  6:10pm
david:

great show by the way!! but isnt that an arrogant way to look at it.
progress mainly about change isnt it?
  6:11pm
Charles-A.:

My band in Europe didn't have a fixed name. We'd call ourselves by the number of musicians e were able to rouse at the local conservatory.
  6:13pm
Charles-A.:

Progress is all abut change but change is not all about progress
  6:15pm
Charles-A.:

I noticed that the Control Data machine at Concordia University was an antique, even then.
  6:16pm
david:

thats right, "progress" is used as a way to dispose of lessons learned.
exploration is the journey of progress.
  6:18pm
Carmichael:

I haven't been anywhere or done anything.
  6:19pm
david:

the tool of influence, to control thought patterns?
  6:20pm
Charles-A.:

The problem with media exploration is that it stopped being 1:N by the sheer existence of computers. They enabled N:M communication and the changes are still coming.
  6:22pm
Charles-A.:

We're about to go beyond renting megaphones to the global village idiots.
  6:24pm
rushkoff:

Doesn't sound so very bad, actually.
  6:24pm
Charles-A.:

Speaking as a highly skilled, highly paid knowledge former worker, I can attest to the truth of his statements.
  6:26pm
Charles-A.:

Quaker, Quacker. Its a myth and they repeat it over and over an over.
  6:27pm
david:

under the influence of the media disregard of the consumer/self.
  6:28pm
Charles-A.:

Wear these jeans and you'll get and get screwed (not laid :-)
  6:28pm
rushkoff:

heh
  6:31pm
david:

to self destruct!
  6:32pm
Charles-A.:

Isn't life grand on the treadmill? :-)
  6:33pm
david:

but where are you going?
  6:34pm
Charles-A.:

Its a treadmill. It will ferry me from the nowhere I find myself now to the grave.
  6:35pm
Charles-A.:

Its not depressing. Its a fact. :-)
  6:37pm
Charles-A.:

And the church excommunicated people for usury.
  6:38pm
david:

not depressives, just maintained progressives.
  6:39pm
I seem to be a verb:

Nice talk, thank you for it. Reminds me of listening to Bucky, in terms of helping our limited attention and life span view something greater and remember all the obstacles were created by us. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to remove commodified intermediaries between people largely because of your show.
  6:39pm
Charles-A.:

I'll be you friend because you wear, uh, nothing. :-)
  6:42pm
Charles-A.:

By Bucky I take it you refer to R. Buckmimster Fuller
  6:43pm
Charles-A.:

Death Tax = reptilian cognition. (People will always have 100 of IQ,)
  6:44pm
non-simultaneously apprehending:

You know it! Been reading him and feeling hopeful.

In the bathroom at my job, there's a business magazine with this cover: A dark sky, thunderstorm, caption: "How To Use Fear For Your Business". Wish I was making it up. But, I'm glad it's getting so hyperbolic. It's not a stable form.
  6:45pm
Charles-A.:

But its a canard. A room wheret hey are holding a Mensa meeting still has an average ID of 100.
  6:48pm
Charles-A.:

I know "non-simultaneously apprehending". What kinds of bastards read magazines with articles subtitled "non-simultaneously apprehending"/
  6:49pm
?:

Ahhh. I know "non-simultaneously apprehending". What kinds of bastards read magazines with articles subtitled "How To Use Fear For Your Business"
  6:49pm
lactation consultant:

heh heh - the worst of 'em..
  6:52pm
Charles-A.:

Sucks to be a "lactation consultant" or should that be Sucks on...
  6:53pm
david:

abstraction till distraction, its a dangerous thing but very powerful<
  6:54pm
Charles-A.:

Cool stole from school, but its always been hip to be square.
  6:57pm
david:

not quite
  6:59pm
Charles-A.:

To the Media Squat, you came, saw and you conquered.

"Ave Rushkoff. Morituri te salutant."

"Ramones" "We Want The Airwaves" "Anthology: Hey Ho, Let's Go.
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