[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

[Dennis Redmond]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:

[WS:}  That would give him a martyr status.  At large, he is just an
> entertainer.
>

But an entertainer in an era when the media and information networks of
neoliberalism are starting to turn against their corporate overlords
(something especially striking in the semi-peripheries). Assange's real
importance is that he's one of the first transnational media stars of the
post-2011 conjuncture -- the kind which draw their power from billions of
cellphones, user sites, and LAN-cafes.

-- DRR