Am Wochenende traten in London der Wikileaks-Begründer Julian Assange und der slowenische Philosoph Slavoj Žižek bei einer vom Frontline Club organisierten Veranstaltung auf und diskutierten in der zweistündigen Veranstaltung über modernen Journalismus, den Stellenwert von Wikileaks für die Presse- und Informationsfreiheit und den Vorwurf des Geheimnisverrats/ Terrorismus gegen Julian Assange.
Die Veranstaltung wurde von Democracy Now! als Livesteam übers Internet gesendet und ist jetzt auch als YouTube Video verfügbar.
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Veranstaltungsankündigung vom Frontline Club:
Last year, whistleblower website WikiLeaks released three of the biggest ever leaks of classified information in history: the Iraq War Logs, the Afghanistan War Logs and Cablegate.
Since then the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed by leaked cables; the UK government has ordered a review of computer security; and, at the same time, a huge wave of protest has swept the Middle East and North Africa – in part fuelled, some believe, by WikiLeaks revelations.
Discussing the impact of WikiLeaks on the world and what it means for the future, for this very special event WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange will be in conversation with renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek.
Focusing on the ethics and philosophy behind WikiLeaks‘ work, the talk will provide a rare opportunity to hear two of the world’s most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time.
It will also mark the publication of the paperback edition of Living in the End Times, in which Žižek argues that new ways of using and sharing information, in particular WikiLeaks, are one of a number of harbingers of the end of global capitalism as we know it.
The event will be chaired by Amy Goodman, the award-winning investigative journalist and host of Democracy Now!, a daily, independent news hour which airs on the internet and more than 900 public television and radio stations worldwide.
