Cory Doctorow: Escaping the enshittocene
Schedule
Thu May 02 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Knox United Church | Winnipeg, MB
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The rapid, precipitous decline of every digital service we depend on isn't a coincidence. It's the result of specific, known policy choices made by specific, named individuals. Those decisions can be reversed. Award-winning science-fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2023 to describe the ways that online platforms decay. The American Dialect Society made it its Word of the Year for 2023.
In this public talk, Doctorow will explain what enshittification is, how it works, and why it's happening now. And, most importantly, how we can reverse it: by seizing the means of computation and building a new, good internet suitable to serve as the digital nervous system of a connected world confronting environmental collapse, genocide and rising fascism.
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA Manitoba) is proud to re-introduce our annual Spring public intellectual talks, which were paused due to COVID-19.
Dare to Dream of a Better Future - CCPA MB Spring public intellectual talks return May 2, 2024
CCPA Manitoba is hosting award-winning author and Internet activist, Cory Doctorow, to give a public talk on resisting corporate-controlled technology on May 2, 2024.
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Cory Doctorow: Escaping the Enshittocene
Why Everything Is Terrible and What To Do About It
7:00 pm, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St., Winnipeg.
Tickets are $25 plus processing fees
If you can't afford the $25 fee please contact the office at 204-927-3200 or email [email protected]. We will have some free or discounted tickets available.
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Cory Doctorow an award-winning science-fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (2023), co-author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back (2022); How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (2020).
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Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2M2, Canada,Winnipeg, ManitobaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
