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…
Mark T talking YouView as open platform at #omc2011 – anyone can build to standards
tracked down by @LucyNews for Newsnight interview- here she is in her lair.
W00t- lovely to see @bobbiejohnson in the company of @jonfildes at TVC – both looking good :-)
Meeting Roger Graef
I’m speaking at Crossover Labs, Frank Boyd’s innovative collaborative workshop, this morning – talking archive and digital public space. We’re at the Wellcome Collection- and I was very pleased to find Roger Graef there too, a marvellous filmmaker and a really nice man 🙂
Off soon to TVC…
Handing out the prizes at #chd11 – brilliant stuff presented
@rachelcoldicutt but you *can* be photographed as you listen attentively at #chd11 :-)
Kicking off Cultural Hackday #chd11
We’re in the basement of Wieden+Kennedy doing intros to data. General message-‘play nice with the data, but kick the shit out of the API’
Looking forward to the weekend.