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+title = "Felix Stalder"
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+# Bio
+
+Felix Stalder is a writer, teacher, and researcher. His work focuses on
+the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in
+particular on new modes of commons-based production, copyright,
+datafication, and transformation of subjectivity. He not only works as
+an academic, but also as a cultural producer, facilitator, and community
+janitor for the nettime mailing list (1998-2023) and now for the
+Fediverse instance tldr.nettime.org

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+title = "Enshittification"
+glassblower = ["felixstalder.md"]
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+A term [proposed](https://doctorow.medium.com/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-ea343342b9bc) by Cory Doctorow in 2023, to make sense of why most of
+the commercial Internet services not only got objectively worse (Google
+Search is less capable of finding relevant stuff today than it was 10
+years ago), but also why it has become an outright hostile environment.
+He describes it as this:
+
+> It’s a three stage process: First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
+
+The most hopeful part is „Then, they die“. Because it points towards a
+configuration of social infrastructures beyond the one we know and hate.
+To help imagine this “beyond”, we can look at projects and their
+infrastructures that never entered this process in the first place.