Angela Richter (Book order)

Angela Richter Book order

Angela Richter is a celebrated theater director, activist, and author whose work delves into the intersection of performance, activism, and the digital age. Her artistic explorations focus on themes of mass surveillance, information freedom, and the role of whistleblowers in contemporary society. Richter employs innovative approaches, often through transmedia projects that fuse theater with multimedia elements, to examine complex societal and political issues. Her creations challenge audiences to consider the boundaries of freedom and responsibility in the digital era.

Supernerds

164 pages
6 hours of reading

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'It’s a type of reorganization or infection of humanity’s thought system, the way humanity talks to itself, the way a society thinks. It’s like everyone simultaneously is taking LSD.' Julian Assange 'No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who think they’re free.' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ever since Edward Snowden’s NSA disclosures, the might of the secret services and the helplessness of everyday citizens are there all around us for everyone to see. But who is taking up the fight against global surveillance and the erosion of democracy? Theater director Angela Richter has conducted in-depth interviews with a number of well-known whistleblowers and internet activists – the 'Supernerds'. Conversations with Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, William Binney, Jeremy Hammond and Thomas Drake, an Essay by Barrett Brown and drawings by Daniel Richter.