Hello and welcome to Under the Skin. This week I spoke to Douglas Rushkopf, media theorist,

critical thinker and author of Team Human, which he also does a podcast for as well. You should

check that out. Thank you for your comments on last week's podcast with Teresa Chung. I'll

be addressing some of those in a minute, but I've got an important announcement to make. Under

the skin is moving to the new platform, Luminary. It's a great new podcast platform aiming to be,

I guess, the Netflix of podcasts, other exclusive artists are Trevor Nuller, Karamo,

Lena Dunham, and like 40 or 50 other premium podcasts as well as you've been at get the normal

podcast you get there. To learn more about this, go to at here Luminary. We won't go there. Follow

at here Luminary on their various social media accounts and sign up to this using my link,

Luminary.link forward slash Russell to SSN2Ls in my name in case you didn't know. There are all sorts

of deals if you sign up quickly. It's a subscription service, but it's a pretty reasonably

priced one if you ask me and it means that all of the podcasts will be advert free and that we'll

be able to continue bringing you under the skin for the next three years and we've got some amazing

guests lined up and confirmed. So you'll still be able to listen to under the skin in the usual way

for the next three weeks, but after that we are moving to the Luminary platform. That's on April

the 29th to go and sign up using that Luminary.link forward slash Russell to get all of the special

offers that I've mentioned. Now Douglas Rushkov was absolutely fantastic episode. You're going to love

it. He got deep. He understands a lot about the intersection between social media and philosophy

and the way that our culture and our psyche and our social relationships are being influenced

by new technologies fascinating. I know it's a subject that comes up a lot on this podcast and

indeed a lot of podcasts, but he's a fascinating man. I think you're going to love it. There were some

some people like this Nancy Wishhart, Jenny who composed, he said this was a good example of

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