ORG at 20: Cory Doctorow in conversation with Maria Farrell
As well as being a renowned author, activist and journalist, Cory Doctorow was a founding member of Open Rights Group!
As part of ORG’s 20th anniversary celebrations, he will join fellow writer and activist Maria Farrell to talk about his writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms, and how we can fight back against Big Tech monopolies that dominate our lives.
Don’t miss out – book your spot today.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently Picks and Shovels and The Bezzle (followups to Red Team Blues) and The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual.
Other recent books include Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He is a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University, which also awarded him an honourary doctorate. His next book is “Enshittification” (Verso, October 2025).
About Maria
A graduate of University College Dublin, the Dublin Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics, Maria Farrell worked in technology policy for twenty years, including at The World Bank, ICANN, the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, the Confederation of British Industry and The Law Society of England and Wales.
Based in London, Maria works for clients. She previously taught Internet governance to policymakers from around the world, and was an instructor in cybersecurity policy at Oxford University’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security from 2014-2018. Maria is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University, London. She has written for The Guardian, Conversationalist, New European, Slate, Medium, the Irish Times and Irish Independent, and appeared as a tech expert on BBC, Sky News, NBC and TRT.
