Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic newsletter, “The World Has Moved On,” which analogizes Stephen King’s Dark Tower series to the Enshittification hypothesis. In the Dark Tower novels, we crisscross a fallen world in which decay is all around us. The buildings are rotten, the machines have stopped... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/06/14/the-world-has-moved-on/" class="more-link" title="Read The world has moved on">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “The Age of Vapor,” about the role science fiction imaginaires plays in fueling high-tech investment bubbles. It’s one thing to make everything about imaginary technology when you’re writing SF. The point of those imaginative exercises is to illumi­nate: To provoke reflection on our... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/06/07/the-age-of-vapor/" class="more-link" title="Read The age of vapor">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read AI and a world without migrants, a recent essay from my Pluralistic blog, which psychoanalyzes the sociopathic fantasies that are driving the AI investment bubble. I don’t care who you are, there will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible –... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/05/31/ai-and-a-world-without-migrants/" class="more-link" title="Read AI and a world without migrants">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I present an hour-long excerpt from the audiobook for The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, which is currently on pre-order through my latest Kickstarter campaign: A short, provocative guide to what’s good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification. In... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2026/05/17/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/" class="more-link" title="Read The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read Comrade Trump, a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter, which will be syndicated in The Nerve. All of which means that my experience of the Trump years is decidedly weird. On the one hand, I exist in a near-perpetual state of anxious misery, as Trump and his chud... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/05/03/comrade-trump/" class="more-link" title="Read Comrade Trump">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>