Piers Locke
@degrowthanthro.bsky.social
The elephant anthropologist engaged with overshoot, metacrisis, and post-growth transition
Cory Doctorow, who developed the idea of enshittification, argues that the shifting geopolitical situation offers a sliver of opportunity to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of US digital tech.
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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
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January 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Cory Doctorow, who developed the idea of enshittification, argues that the shifting geopolitical situation offers a sliver of opportunity to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of US digital tech.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent post considering how left-brain conceptual abstraction and material extraction have propelled modern civilization toward global ecological crisis, socio-political chaos, and existential confusion. open.substack.com/pub/thehones...
Wetiko: The Psychosis Eating The World Alive
The predicaments we face today have much deeper roots than what could be explained away with ‘capitalism bad’ or ‘fossil fuels bad’.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Excellent post considering how left-brain conceptual abstraction and material extraction have propelled modern civilization toward global ecological crisis, socio-political chaos, and existential confusion. open.substack.com/pub/thehones...
Explores Capitalism as an emergent thermodynamic behaviour- the collective expression of the maximum power principle, which states that systems organise themselves to capture and use energy to do work as fast as possible, without concern for sustaining that capture. pod.link/1604218333/e...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Explores Capitalism as an emergent thermodynamic behaviour- the collective expression of the maximum power principle, which states that systems organise themselves to capture and use energy to do work as fast as possible, without concern for sustaining that capture. pod.link/1604218333/e...