JULIAN ASSANGE IN HIS OWN WORDS

The WikiLeaks publisher and free speech campaigner Julian Assange was, from April 2019, held in a maximum security prison in London facing extradition to the United States over WikiLeaks’’ groundbreaking 2010 publications. In this crisp anthology, Assange’s voice emerges – erudite, analytic and prophetic.

Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, intelligence agencies and the media function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new.

Drawing on his insights as the world’s most famous free speech activist Assange invites us to ask further questions about how power operates in a world increasingly dominated by a ubiquitous internet.