{"id":1424,"date":"2010-12-10T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T12:01:04","slug":"wikileaks_as_a_harbinger_of_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/wikileaks_as_a_harbinger_of_st\/","title":{"rendered":"wikileaks as a harbinger of strange times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks is turning out to be a profoundly interesting phenomenon. The questions it raises about communication in the age of the internet, particularly in the context of an ever-weakening U.S. empire, are so new and so complex that people and organizations who normally don&#8217;t have too much difficulty figuring out what side of a problem they are on, are scrambling for purchase on unsure ground.<br \/>\nGeert Lovink and Patrice Riemens&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/networkcultures.org\/wpmu\/geert\/2010\/12\/07\/twelve-theses-on-wikileaks-with-patrice-riemens\/\">Twelve Theses on Wikileaks<\/a> is one of the more thoughtful pieces I&#8217;ve read so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks is turning out to be a profoundly interesting phenomenon. The questions it raises about communication in the age of the internet, particularly in the context of an ever-weakening U.S. empire, are so new and so complex that people and organizations who normally don&#8217;t have too much difficulty figuring out what side of a problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}