> There is a moment in Cory Doctorow's 2025 book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It where he pauses to pick a fight with Audre Lorde. He calls her "far smarter than I am about nearly everything," then insists that one of her most quoted observations, that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, is "manifestly wrong."
JFC!
quoting“On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse”
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https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/
> Read against the speech itself, Lorde's argument seems less concerned with whether antitrust law can break up monopolies and more with whose knowledge counts, who gets to define the problem, and what gets systematically erased when liberation movements reproduce the exclusions of the systems they are opposing.