NOTE: This is a two part event, in two locations; see details above and below.
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Join Doug Rushkoff, SMITH Magazine, ARTHUR Magazine, & WFMU for a double-feature doozie celebrating the launch of Rushkoff's new book LIFE INC. - How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back, + toasting the wrap of SMITH's NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR Truelife Webcomix Anthology edited by Dean Haspiel.

http://www.lifeincorporated.net
Book On Sale Now:
http://lifeincorporated.net/order.html

http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor
http://www.arthurmagazine.com
http://www.wfmu.org
http://www.bluestockings.com/events

7pm @ Bluestockings Bookstore- DOUG RUSHKOFF leads a "thinkaloud." He'll discuss topics in LIFE INC., answer questions, and sign books.

9pm @ SUTRA Lounge, Doug joins forces with the creators of SMITH Magazine's NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR to celebrate both the launch of LIFE INC. and the wrap of NDN. Hang with Doug, NDN editor Dean Haspiel + NDN creators, as well as the crew from Arthur and WFMU. Also, a live performance by the legendary Cedric IM Brooks, Kevin Batchelor, the mighty NUM + members of the Skatalites
http://www.myspace.com/cedricimbrooks
http://www.myspace.com/kevinbatchelor


"For better, and more often for worse, we all live next to someone. And we all have a Next-Door Neighbor story. With this in mind, I asked some of my favorite storytellers and cartoonists to tell their favorite NDN stories, originally presented at SMITH Magazine. Enjoy!" — Dean Haspiel, NDN Editor
An NDN sampling:
Next Door Neighborless: A True Story by Jonathan Ames and Nick Bertozzi
http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor/2008/04/01/story-1/
Hank & Barbara by Joan Reilly
http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor/2008/05/19/story-4/
The Next-Door Neighbor I Don’t Know by Harvey Pekar & Rick Veitch
http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor/2008/07/14/story-8/
"Glenna Evans" by Barbara Rushkoff & Nathan Schreiber
http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor/2008/11/23/story-17/
+ Check out the mini-documentary on Next-Door Neighbor:
http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=3015272
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LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back

This didn’t just happen.

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.

Watch & Spread the 9-minute LIFE INC. Movie:
http://www.vimeo.com/4655092

LIFE INC DISPATCH -- 2 Minute Videos:
http://www.lifeincorporated.net/lifeincdispatch.html

Recent Interviews / Reviews:

OnPoint WBUR NPR, Tom Ashbrook
Radio Interview, Everything Incorporated
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/06/douglas-rushkoffs-life-inc

WordofMouth NHPR NPR, Virginia Prescott
Radio Interview, Our Corporatized Lives
http://www.nhpr.org/node/25255

NBC New York, Laurence Scott
News Report and Review, Your Life or Your ‘Life Inc’
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Your-Money-or-Your-LIFE-INC-.html

GlobalComment.com, Sarah Jaffe
Life, Inc.: An Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
http://globalcomment.com/2009/life-inc-an-interview-with-douglas-rushkoff/

"Doug’s book reveals how we’ve been corporatized to the point that we don’t realize that our “money” isn’t actually the only form of currency, that we can create value for each other numerous ways, person-to-person, with numerous forms of “complementary currency” (e.g. doing things for each other and our communities). At SMITH, we like to consider the personal stories told by our community as our currency, buying your attention, as collective value is created by sharing wisdom, knowledge, laughs and tragedies in carefully crafted stories, comics and even Six-Word Memoirs. Doug’s book celebrates, from an unexpected angle, human connection and value creation, unmediated by a brand or corporation, and from this point of view, shows how our economic shithouse may just be a blessing in disguise." -- Jeff Newelt, SMITH Comics Editor