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Nell’inverno del 2014, l’attore americano John Cusack, da sempre impegnato sul fronte dei diritti civili, ha un’idea. Far incontrare i due più celebri whistleblower americani, due fedeli servitori del governo statunitense che in epoche diverse hanno avuto il coraggio di renderne pubblici gli abusi: Daniel Ellsberg, il funzionario del Pentagono che nel 1971 rivelò i piani della guerra in Vietnam, e Edward Snowden, l’informatico ed ex tecnico della CIA che nel 2013 denunciò le intercettazioni a tappeto condotte dalla National Security Agency. All’incontro sarà invitata anche Arundhati Roy, una delle voci più chiare e implacabili che si sono levate negli ultimi anni contro la politica imperialista di molti stati, in linea con la posizione di Julian Assange, fondatore di WikiLeaks.
Da questo «contro-summit» nasce un libro potente e provocatorio, che interroga tutti noi: che significato hanno davvero le bandiere, il patriottismo, le grandi organizzazioni internazionali? Quale ruolo ricoprono il dissenso e la ricerca della verità in una realtà in cui il denaro può liberamente varcare limiti e confini sociali, culturali, geografici, mentre le persone e le parole non possono farlo?
- ISBN: 8823516994
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 176
- Data di uscita: 20-10-2016
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Let me stipulate from the beginning of this review that my objection to it is not because I disagree with the politics of the authors or the two other participants in their discussions: Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden. Debates about the advisability or legality of Snowden's actions, in particular Leggi tutto
4 renegades (3.5, if you please) assemble in a hotel room to talk about war, greed, terrorism, basically all those things that make you anti-national. The build-up to the conversation was brilliant. But, the conversation itself, well….. how should I put it…..leaves you keep wanting. As Ms. Roy put it Leggi tutto
Want to read more by Arundhati Roy, but maybe next time she could talk to Noam Chomsky (for example) instead of John Cusack? I mean, I was slightly obsessed with John Cusack for a significant subset of the years between 1989 and 2005, and he's not a dummy. But he doesn't quite have the chops for thi Leggi tutto
This book just blew my mind. Never thought of the government in this way.
This is a re-read for me, but really...this is one of those books that I am sort of ALWAYS reading, you know? It's a book that I often grab and flip through and highlight and underline, etc. It's one that is never truly closed forever. It's a book I re-visit often, and I'm so glad to own a copy. It' Leggi tutto
In a world of capitalism, mass surveillance and perpetual warfare, we often give into the common narratives perpetuated by the state and its puppets. ‘The Things That Can And Cannot Be Said’ challenges every aspect of the normal public discourse. Who defines what can be said? Who defines normal? The Leggi tutto
Ahem, I have mixed feelings about this book. I absolutely love Roy, have a lot of respect for Ellsberg, mixed feelings for Snowden (and this book doesn't change them to the better or worse as his input is modest, although he serves as the pretext for the book), and nothing at all (perhaps just some
“Things that Can and Cannot Be Said” by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy is one of the most disappointing things I have ever read. I think many of the ideas brought up in the text are worth discussing. But it a paranoid, self-congratulatory, shallow, and ultimately futile work that promises much but is Leggi tutto
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