geert lovink

27 theses on WikiLeaks (and counting…)

At first I thought WikiLeaks was all about data. Data-journalism. Data-mining. Raw data hacked, transfered, mirrored, etc. Cold-blooded, hard facts. Then I realized it is not. As any culturally and politically defining moment, WikiLeaks exposes our hunger for *theory*. Abstract, verbose, fact-insensitive theory.  Here are some examples, cherry-picked from the Web.

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