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Welcome to the #Metagame Book Club and eLCC's educational look at Cory Doctorow's Ensh#tification.
We'll meet live on Friday April 24 at 2 pm ET/1 pm CT/12 pm MT/11 am PT
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Enshit-tification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About IT by Cory Doctorow
The term enshittification is not quite as new as the book. In 2023, the American Dialect Society voted it the word of the year and the book's author Cory Doctorow has been using the term for a number of years.
"Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it."
Here's a quick read from The New Yorker
The Age of Enshittifcation by Kyle Chayka October 1, 2025.
Ars Technica staffers used the term to write an article - As Internet enshittifcation marches on, here are some of the worst offenders.
Paul Krugman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, took an economic look at The General Theory of Enshittifcation on his substack. This relates back to the conclusion of the book, Is Enshittifcation just Capitalism?
Below this textbox, there is an interview of Cory Doctorow by Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show.
At the 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival, Cory Doctorow discusses Big Tech and AI along with Adam Beck, author of 'More of Everything Forever': AI Overlords, Space Empires , and Silicon Valleys' Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.
Cory Doctorow's Medium blog on Adam Beck's More Everything Forever.
Vocabulary List
Algorithmic Wage Discrimination
Attention Rent
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Digital Sovereignty
Dynamic Pricing
Feature Erosion
Interoperability
Lock-in
Monetization Shift
Monosophy Power
Paywall Creep
Platform Decay
Rent Seek
Right of Exit
Self-help*
Twiddling
Two-sided market
Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance Pricing
Techlash
User Acquisition Phase
User-hostile design
Vocational Awe
AI and Enshitiffication
Now taking it into the AI Era, where does enslopification and slopification come in. AI Slop was Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2025 and if it is new word for you, Wikipedia still does a good job of tracking AI Slop's origin and place in current culture.
AI Tokens, Vibe Spending and Behavioral Accounting
Related content on spending models with AI and vibe coding.
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