{"id":2130,"date":"2014-03-17T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/17\/at-his-best-he-represented-a-new-way-of-existing\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:50","slug":"at-his-best-he-represented-a-new-way-of-existing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/17\/at-his-best-he-represented-a-new-way-of-existing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>At his best, he represented a new way of existing in relation to authority. He wasn\u2019t very straightforwardly of the left and couldn\u2019t have distinguished dialectical materialism from a bag of nuts. He hates systems of belief, hates all systems, wants indeed to be a ghost in the machine, walking through the corridors of power and switching off the lights. I found myself writing notes culled from what he said to me about himself. \u2018When you\u2019re a hacker you\u2019re interested in masks within masks,\u2019 and \u2018We could undermine corruption from its dead centre. Justice will always in the end be about human beings, but there is a new vanguard of experts, criminalised as we are, who have fastened onto the cancer of modern power, and seen how it spreads in ways that are still hidden from ordinary human experience.\u2019<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n05\/andrew-ohagan\/ghosting\">Andrew O\u2019Hagan \u00b7 Ghosting: Julian Assange \u00b7 LRB 6 March 2014<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Amazing piece on ghostwriting for Assange, revealing the man\u2019s bewildering character and the impossible operating procedures of his organization.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his best, he represented a new way of existing in relation to authority. He wasn\u2019t very straightforwardly of the left and couldn\u2019t have distinguished dialectical materialism from a bag of nuts. He hates systems of belief, hates all systems, wants indeed to be a ghost in the machine, walking through the corridors of power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/17\/at-his-best-he-represented-a-new-way-of-existing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}