💩 Enshittified: Reading Cory Doctorow's fiction

📚 About our sessions

Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.

📖 About this session

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He is an activist in favour of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. He writes essays online on https://pluralistic.net/ and has coined the word “Enshittification" which became the word of the year in 2023.
We are going to read four different stories which show his views and debate both about his style and its content.

• 🖨️ Printcrime PDF (A4) | HTML | Plain text | EPUB [2007] (737 words)
• ⚰️ By his things will you know him [2013] (5247 words) Comment by the author

• 📹 Affordances [2019] (5635 words)
• 🕰️ Inside the clock tower [2021] (1296 words)

After the discussion feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕