{"id":32097,"date":"2017-06-09T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/mia-to-host-talk-with-julian-assange-slavoj-iek-more-at-meltdown-festival-pitchfork.php"},"modified":"2017-06-09T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:45:09","slug":"mia-to-host-talk-with-julian-assange-slavoj-iek-more-at-meltdown-festival-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/mia-to-host-talk-with-julian-assange-slavoj-iek-more-at-meltdown-festival-pitchfork.php","title":{"rendered":"MIA to Host Talk With Julian Assange, Slavoj iek, More at Meltdown Festival &#8211; Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    M.I.A.    previously announced that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange    would be speaking at this years Meltdown Festival, which she    curated. Now, more details on Assanges involvement have been    revealed. M.I.A. will host a talk with Assange (who will appear    remotely over a live link), along with philosophersSlavoj    iek andSreko Horvat. The discussion, titled Whats    Coming Next, will cover the complexities of global activism    and art in a changing world, according to a rep for the    festivals venue. The talk will go down from 10:30-11:45 a.m.    on June 11 at theWeston Roof Pavilion of the Royal    Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre.  <\/p>\n<p>    After it was announced last month that Swedish authorities were    dropping its investigation of sexual assault by Assange, M.I.A.    penned an impassioned     statement defending him. She recently shared a new song,    GOALS.  <\/p>\n<p>    Read M.I.A.    vs. the System: A Complete Timeline of Her Controversies    andThe    Survivor: A Conversation With M.I.A.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/74091-mia-to-host-talk-with-julian-assange-slavoj-zizek-more-at-meltdown-festival\/\" title=\"MIA to Host Talk With Julian Assange, Slavoj iek, More at Meltdown Festival - Pitchfork\">MIA to Host Talk With Julian Assange, Slavoj iek, More at Meltdown Festival - Pitchfork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> M.I.A. previously announced that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be speaking at this years Meltdown Festival, which she curated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}