Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff ( born February 18, 1961) is an author, lecturer, columnist and musician from New York City.

Biography

Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He moved to Los Angeles and reached there a Master of Fine Arts in Directing at the California Institute of the Arts. He now teaches media theory within the framework of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.

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

In late 2003, Rushkoff was also briefly a keyboardist with 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)
• Playing the Future: What We Can Learn From Digital Kids- Children of Chaos in the UK ( Riverhead Books, 1996 )
• Ecstasy Club A Novel ( Harper Edge, 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 ( Collins Business, 2005)
• Life Inc: How the world Became a corporation and how to take it back ( Random House, 2009)
• Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (Current Hardcover, 2013)