The Joker wants to reveal the truth beneath the mask; so does Julian Assange. Does that make him a villain? The philosopher-joker Slavoj Zizek riffs on the parallels between the moral ambiguities of The Dark Knight Batman film and the shameless cynicism of the global order and its reactions to Wikileaks disclosures. Read more...
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