Verso Book Club Reading Group: Cory Doctorow and Joanna Walsh
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This month we're talking about the internet: how we built it and why it's shit now.
The next meeting of the VBC Reading Group will take place on October 19th at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT+1. We'll be joined by authors Joanna Walsh and Cory Doctorow to discuss their respective books:
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It by Cory Doctorow.
“Big Tech does not just plunder your data. It does not merely rob you of your privacy. It does something far, far worse than that. You know it. You feel it. But you won't be able to put your finger on it until you have read Cory Doctorow's Enshittification. Once you do, you will know and, more importantly, you will stand a better chance of resisting.” — Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh.
"A eulogy and a manifesto for the internet revolution that came and went before our eyes, on our screens, beneath our fingertips: the revolution of the amateur." —Los Angeles Review of Books
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