First released: 13 June 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist who’s been thinking publicly about the industrial capture of creative labor markets since the ‘90s. In Berlin last week touring his newest book, the NYTimes bestselling, anti-finance finance thriller Red Team Blues (Tor Books, 2023) and to present at the re:publica conference with his Chokepoint Capitalism (Beacon, 2022) co-author Rebecca Giblin, Doctorow generously made time to speak with New Models about the entrenched, corrosive models driving what we’ll shorthand here as corporate cannibalism.

For more:

Tw: @doctorow

Blog/newsletter: https://pluralistic.net

Site & pod: https://craphound.com

Recent books:

Red Team Blues (Tor Books, 2023) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/redteamblues

Chokepoint Capitalism (Beacon, 2022)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/