Enshittification, Disenshittification and the Bezzle: Cory Doctorow & Randall Munroe @BKCHarvard

Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

Enshittification, Disenshittification, and the Bezzle: Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Randall Munroe

Activist, author and journalist Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification," the American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year, describing how platforms decay and why they're all collapsing at once. In this conversation with Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD, Doctorow presents his theory of mass platform collapse and his latest novel, "The Bezzle," a high-tech crime thriller about prison-tech and other unsavory frauds.

**Please note that this event ended abruptly due to a building issue.

Enshittification, Disenshittification and the Bezzle: Cory Doctorow & Randall Munroe

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