Cory Doctorow
Science-fiction author and activist; writes Pluralistic and popularised the word enshittification.
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- Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science-fiction author, journalist and activist for liberalising copyright.
- He co-edited the blog Boing Boing until January 2020, then started the solo blog Pluralistic.
- He worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in London until 2006 and rejoined it in January 2015 to campaign against DRM.
- In 2022 he popularised the word enshittification, the subject of his 2025 book.
Key facts
- Born
- 17 July 1971, Toronto1
- Opencola
- Co-founded the P2P software company in June 1999; sold to Open Text in 20031
- EFF
- European Affairs Coordinator in London for four years until January 2006; rejoined in January 20151
- Teaching
- Visiting professor at the Open University from September 2009 to August 2010; appointed Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-large in July 2024 for six years1
- Novels
- Little Brother (2008); Homeland (2013); Walkaway (2017); Attack Surface (2020); Red Team Blues (2023)1
- Non-fiction
- Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It (2025), 2026 Locus Award for Best Non-fiction1
Links
- Pluralistic (opens pluralistic.net)
- craphound.com (opens craphound.com)
- @doctorow.pluralistic.net (opens bsky.app)
- Mastodon (opens mamot.fr)
- Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Where they publish (ppll) (opens ppll.app)
- What they believe (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
- What they recommend (rcmnd) (opens rcmnd.app)
Sources
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