Douglas Rushkoff's online course

Author and cultural critic Douglas Rushkoff is teaching an online course called "Technologies of Persuasion." A few years ago he wrote an excellent book on the subject called Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say.

I'm teaching a course through a distanced learning site called Maybe Logic Academy - where Robert Anton Wilson used to teach everything from James Joyce to economics theory.

My course, Technologies of Persuasion, is beginning in just two weeks. I haven't promoted it anywhere - I just haven't had time or energy these days to do more than what's right on my plate - so this should be a small and intimate group. And it's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying for NYU.

Plus, we'll get to be a little crazier than people are generally allowed to get in a college seminar room, with some no-holds-barred discussions on how media and technology shape the way we think, and why we seem to remain so pitifully unaware of the biases of the media we use.

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Previously on Boing Boing:
• Boing Boing interviews Doug Rushkoff about his Testament comic book
• Rushkoff's new book Get Back In The Box
• Douglas Rushkoff fiction in Nerve
• Rushkoff on Guruphiliac
• Interview with Douglas Rushkoff (MP3)
• Rushkoff's Testament issue #1, now free
• Barbara Rushkoff's new parenting blog
• Rushkoff's Thought Virus #4
• Douglas Rushkoff's Thought Virus #3
• Rushkoff on the futility of artificial workplace fun
• Doug Rushkoff's final Thought Virus from his new book
• Rushkoff's Thought Virus #5: The Ben & Jerry's Syndrome