Cory Doctorow and Zephyr Teachout in Conversation
The monopolistic dominance of the technosphere and media ecosystem by a handful of immense corporations has led to extraordinary erosions of privacy, dignity and sanity, and may threaten the very survival of those democratic institutions we still have. In light of these realities, what can we do to resist what Cory Doctorow has brilliantly tagged as the “Enshittification” of online reality and its nefarious impacts on the larger cultural and socio-political context? In this conversation, Cory, one of the world’s leading, long-time warriors for a truly functional internet that genuinely serves our needs, joins Zephyr Teachout, attorney, law professor, author, political leader, pioneering anti-monopoly and internet activist, and one of the nation’s leading experts on democracy and antitrust law, as they delve deeply into the best strategies we can employ to reclaim what should be our information and communication commons.
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March 27th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm
Panelists
Professor of Law
Fordham Law School
Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, is a renowned and influential expert on the intersection of corporate and political power. She is the author of Corruption in America, which traces the history of what corruption has meant at different times in our history and, most recently of: Break 'em Up, which makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law. Zephyr also ran for Governor and Attorney General of New York State, getting the New York Times endorsement in the latter race, and is a leading figure in national antimonopoly and democracy defense movements.
Technology Journalist and Science Fiction Author
Cory Doctorow, a renowned, award-winning science fiction author, activist, and journalist, is the author of dozens of books, most recently, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, (nonfiction); and the novels Picks and Shovels and The Bezzle. His other notable books include the “solar-punk” novels Walkaway and The Lost Cause, and the tech policy books The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism. Cory also: maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net; works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation; and is: an AD White Professor at Cornell University; an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate; a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University; a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science; and a co-founder of the UK Open Rights Group.