<
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel>
"Last night, I gave the annual Marshall McLuhan lecture at the Transmediale
festival in Berlin. The event was sold out and while there's a video that'll be
posted soon, they couldn't get a streaming setup installed in the Canadian
embassy, where the talk was held:
https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024
The talk went [off] fabulously, and was followed by commentary from Frederike
Kaltheuner (Human Rights Watch) and a discussion moderated by Helen Starr.
While you'll have to wait a bit for the video, I thought that I'd post my talk
notes from last night for the impatient among you.
I want to thank the festival and the embassy staff for their hard work on an
excellent event, and reiterate what a pleasure it was to meet John Horgan,
Canada's ambassador to Germany. And now, on to the talk!
# # #
Last year, I coined the term 'enshittification,' to describe the way that
platforms decay. That obscene little word did big numbers, it really hit the
zeitgeist. I mean, the American Dialect Society made it their Word of the Year
for 2023 (which, I suppose, means that now I'm definitely getting a poop emoji
on my tombstone).
So what's enshittification and why did it catch fire? It's my theory explaining
how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are
degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can do
about it.
We're all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the
services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of
shit."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
