Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, values, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box, and Open Source Democracy. He also made the Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool and The Persuaders.
In this keynote "invocation," which opened the second day of Personal Democracy Forum on June 24, 2008, he argues that there is no such thing as "personal democracy" and genuine democratic discourse can only be participatory and collective. The power to write and publish, he notes, may finally be in the hands of everyone (after centuries of domination by religious and political elites), but real democracy isn't just blogging and commenting, it's treating the entire world as "open source" and remakable by direct participation.
Wow cool. Just the conceptual assistance I need right now for some theorization I am working on as well, sir, thx.
'Open Source Democracy' it seems is our only chance to win against the War Party's Political Machine, I think, right now. The internet and pushbutton publishing, coupled w/those w/knowledge of a) semantics b) poetry c) history d) art e) advertising/sales f) etc. working together as polit-bureau and press agents, etc., virtually we can make this happen.
Hey - weird.. I hit pause for a second on the Video and you started talking all backwards and stuff for a minute there. No kidding. That was a trip.. Anyway - great work, inspiring as always.
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OSD = http://rushkoff.com/books/open-source-democracy/
I found OSD after writing some related ideas. The Earth Intelligence Network also related to facilitating a taking back of powers for the people:
http://www.earth-intelligence.net http://www.myspace.com/earthintelnet http://smart-city.re-configure.org http://link-bomb.re-configure.org Link Table from Earth-Intelligence.net http://tinyurl.com/5m5vho Collective Intelligence Book = http://tinyurl.com/3859nn http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
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