From 3f46ea0eee0922dd5e4e412fe6bb216b0ddbd85a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcell Mars Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 17:33:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! enshittification --- content/glassblower/felixstalder.md | 13 +++++++++++++ content/shard/enshittification.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/glassblower/felixstalder.md create mode 100644 content/shard/enshittification.md diff --git a/content/glassblower/felixstalder.md b/content/glassblower/felixstalder.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3363325 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/glassblower/felixstalder.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ ++++ +title = "Felix Stalder" ++++ + +# 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 diff --git a/content/shard/enshittification.md b/content/shard/enshittification.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2cd256 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/shard/enshittification.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ ++++ +title = "Enshittification" +glassblower = ["felixstalder.md"] ++++ + +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.