One of the first interviews with Julian Assange after Wikileaks erupted unto public consciousness. I made this interview in Oslo, Norway, in 2012, after trying to lock him for an interview over several months of back-and-forth and supposedly security checks. After having a 90-minute sushi lunch with him in Berkeley he finally agreed to an interview… in Oslo. I didn’t mind at the time. Oslo isn’t that bad of a city. By the time I was out with the trailer, the studios had sniffed out the property and were offering likely 7-digit range to the protagonist. I was left with a trailer and a learning curve. Meeting a brilliant mind is the best compensation possible.
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out In The Forest
The fastest way to recalibrate from the annoying little Oompa Loompas of modern daily life is to turn on, tune in, and drop out in the forest.
If you don’t have a forest available immediately, this 8.5-minute Ersatz clip helps you recalibrate from the family members who try to tell you what to do and what not to do. From the work colleagues who try to steal all the credit, the Besserwissers who can’t leave you in peace, the neighbors who use leaf blowers on their crew-cut lawns, the shop clerks who still wear masks and look askance at you - and all the other disturbed souls you have to deal with daily.
Put your headphones on, inhale through your nose, fill your lungs in four seconds, pause, then let it all out slowly through your mouth, exhaling for at least eight seconds while your focus remains on the shifting patterns of nature.
Feel it with your chest.
The indeterministic probability of the seemingly chaotic quells the non-essential.
Dosage: Once a week. In case of a particularly nasty rap, twice a week. Apocalyptic mess: once a day.
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It’s early in the morning so this is mltosy a jumble of thoughts rather than a cohesive opinion.-Throughout the whole diplomatic links, I keep thinking of how very In The Loop’ it all seems. However, Assange’s theories both seem to support and reject the movie’s depiction of politics.-A lot of contemporary philosophy/theory discusses how capable capitalism has become at absorbing protest, and what this means for art and intellectualism that find itself utterly toothless. A friend in our philosophy department is working on something like post-Marxism, trying to figure out what the next radicalism, protest, and/or social structuring can look like since Marxism, as such, is clearly no longer viable (if it ever was). I wonder if Assange is on to something viable or if capitalism will just find a way to absorb this protest as well.-Lastly, I find it fascinating that these links come from inside and are given then given to Assange. Um, guess that’s all I have to say about that now.Would love email or comments with further discussion! (Perhaps I will re-read when I am less foggy too.)