Interviews

The Jewcy Interview, 08 August 2005
Online Jewish webzine Jewcy interviewing Rushkoff about Nothing Sacred.

First Interview about Get Back in the Box, 20 April 2005
Kris Krug Dot Com interviews Rushkoff about his first business book.

New Zionist Interview, 29 March 2005
A new Jewish webzine interviews Rushkoff on pop culture, politics, and American Jewry.

The RAWstory Interview, 22 February 2005
RU Sirius in a pretty heavy conversation with Rushkoff about the counterculture - or what's left of it.

Douglas Rushkoff Talks Club Zero-G and Breaking into Comics, 03 September 2004

Baker's Dozen Review of Club Zero-G", 14 July 2004
Bill Baker was the first to try to put Rushkoff's sequential narrative efforts in the context of his other work.

Jive Magazine: I'm No Authority, 12 March 2004
Webzine engages Rushkoff on everything from cybercutlure and rave to politics and prose.

Madghoul Interview, 2004
A brief interview from 2004 about how we got here.

Lifestyles, "Can We Talk?", September 2003
The definite analysis and interview about Nothing Sacred, and my engagement with Judaism.

F2, "Leaving the Twentieth Century", 05 October 2001
Ashley Crawford talks with Rushkoff about his 'open-source' novel Exit Strategy and the idea of putting books online.

PopImage Interview on Club Zero-G
The interview that led to Rushkoff getting noticed by DC/Vertigo.

The Edge, "The thing That I Call Doug", 25 October 1999
John Brockman did this interview for his website of conversations between scientists and thinkers, known as The Edge. This extensive conversation gets to the core issues of Rushkoff's current work and helps explain the path he's taken to get there.

Dreamflesh Interview, 28 September 1995
Here's a reprint of an interview I did with a journalist in Brighton when Cyberia first came out. Interesting to see the similarities between what I was thinking then and now.

Alternet, "Is Judaism Becoming Irrelevant?", 12 June 2003
A very frank interview with Rachel Lehman-Haupt.

Digital Age,"How Technology is Changing the Stories We Tell"
Half hour PBS Interview with Rushkoff by Andrew Shapiro, (requires Realplayer) for the program Digital Age.

Shift.com, "Open-Source Everything", 2001
Christopher Shulgan talks to Rushkoff about Exit Strategy and the idea of open-source art.

The CopyDesk, 06 November 2001
Rushkoff answers the question: How will people look back on this era 200 years from now?

The Independent, "Real Virtue Against Virtuality", 22 June 2001
Gareth Evans interviews Rushkoff about his new novel, Bull.

Julian's Lounge, 26 February 2001
Julian Sanchez, a former student of Rushkoff, engages him in free-wheeling discussion on economics, politics, ethics and more.

The CLAL Interview, 2000
This intense interview should help explain the biblical themes in Bull/Exit Strategy as well as why Rushkoff has decided to write about Judaism in his next book.

Feed, "Pulling Society's Strings: Douglas Rushkoff and Andrew Shapiro, 2000
Steven Johnson sits down with Rushkoff and Andrew Shapiro to explore "coercion, control, and what, if anything, will allow us to shape the world we're living in."

Front Wheel Drive, "Media Assasin", 1999
Roy Christopher quickly asks Rushkoff a few book questions.

Austin Chronicle, Why We Listen to What They Say, 1999
An interview with The Austin Chronicle's Jon Lebkowsky

Azarkin Interview
Includes a Croatian translation.

RiotGrrl, "Breakfast with Rushkoff", 1998
Pamela Parker asks Rushkoff about relationships, sex, and yes, the Internet.

Creatures Interview, June 1998
Francis Leach talks with Rushkoff about communication, the evolution of the Internet, and the threat of the world wide mall.

Spike Magazine, "Lost in Translation", 1997
Chris Mitchell talks with Rushkoff about Children of Chaos and making sense of the future in an interview for the web zine, Spike.

The San Francisco Examiner, "It's All the Rave", 22 June 1997
In this short piece, Rebecca Eisenberg asks Rushkoff about San Francisco, rave culture, and Ecstasy Club.

Rewired, "The Two Doug Rushkoffs", 30 June 1997
This contains the material edited out from the Rebecca Eisenberg interview printed in the SF Examiner. Rushkoff responds to criticism and gets personal.

CNNFN, "It's Only Money", 1997
This is the transcript of a short and ironic interview done with Michael Okwu for CNN's Financial News channel, in which Rushkoff finds himself labeled "Generation X Commentator."

Infinity Factory (a/v) - Ecstasy Club interview, 1997
This is a one-hour Real Audio interview about Ecstasy Club on the Pseudo Network done by Richard Metzger, brilliant and notorious creator of the Disinformation site.

Real News, "Download This Book!", 1996
In this long and wide-ranging interview Bill Skubi talks with Rushkoff about everything from Christianity to salmon.

Psychedelic Island Views, 1996
In this early interview, Rushkoff muses about drugs, consciousness and spirituality.

Omni Magazine, "On Youth Culture and the Information Age", 1996
Paulette Hodge conducts this online interview with Rushkoff centering on ideas from Playing the Future.

Magical Blend, 1995
Mike Gorman talks to Rushkoff about Media Virus and the human potential of new technologies.