Is Assange the Joker?

Fascinating article from this week’s London Review of Books by Slavoj Žižek in which he compares Julian Assange to the Joker in The Dark Night, a man who ‘wants to disclose the truth beneath the mask, convinced that this will destroy the social order’

The article is at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-zizek/good-manners-in-the-age-of-wikileaks and is worth reading in full

It’s an interesting idea, and one that inspired my son, Max, to boot up PhotoShop…

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