“Enshittification: Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It”
Cory Doctorow in conversation with Raymond Craib (Professor, Dept. of History, Cornell University)
Saturday, Sept. 13, at 4:00-8:30pm
Autumn Leaves Books
115 East State Street, Ithaca, NY
Open to all

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently ENSHITTIFICATION: WHY EVERYTHING SUDDENLY GOT WORSE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (nonfiction); and the novels PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES). Other notable books include the solarpunk novels WALKAWAY and THE LOST CAUSE; the tech policy books THE INTERNET CON and CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM; and the internationally bestselling YA LITTLE BROTHER series; and the picture book POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Doctorow is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and visits Cornell in that role Sept. 12-19, 2025.

Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe the pattern of rapid decay exhibited throughout two-sided capitalistic, online market platforms, between provider and purchaser. The American Dialect Society made the term its 2023 Word of the Year and Digital Word of the Year, and it has been widely discussed in The New York Times, the BBC and NPR, among others.

Raymond Craib is the Marie Underhill Knoll professor of History at Cornell University. He is especially interested in Latin America and/as global history, critical geography/cartography, the left, and theory and history. Craib’s most recent book is Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age.