Book of the week

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi

LETTERS

In 2022, Cory Doctorow coined a term to describe how the internet has decayed at the hands of tech giants, making the digital world a far worse place. His neologism, “enshittification”, was named the

In 2022, Cory Doctorow coined a term to describe how the internet has decayed at the hands of tech giants, making the digital world a far worse place. His neologism, “enshittification”, was named the

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

The what of the internet?!? “Enshittification” is a term coined by the British-Canadian technology critic and author Cory Doctorow in 2022 to describe how the digital services that increasingly domina