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Deshittification
Dory Cocteau’s *Deshittification* is the rare polemic that refuses the comforts of both despair and paperwork. Most books about the contemporary internet — its baited feeds, its “helpful” assistants, its marketplaces that feel like thrift stores managed by pickpockets — arrive either as elegies (everything was better in 2009) or as briefs (everything can be fixed by 2034, after the right committee hearing). Cocteau — a nom de plume encapsulating a hypercollaborative authorship — has written neither. The collective’s argument is, instead, a kind of field manual for an age in which the network has become less a commons than a landlord: the point is not to convince the landlord to develop empathy; the point is to learn how to stop renting.
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