/Giap/digest #19 - Q in English and the "Springtime of the Movements" - May 2003
1. News for German readers on wumingfoundation.com
2. Q in English: links and reviews
3. Copyleft Explained to Children and other writings
4. Italy and the "Springtime of the Movements"
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Further reviews of Q in the German press (Die Welt, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Sonntagsblatt...)
Now available at
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/Qquerschnitt.html
"Luther Blissett rettet die Welt!" - Die Avantgarde italienischer Medienaktivisten
Zuendfunk - Nachtausgabe - Bayern2 Radio, 18 Januar 2003
[A 63-minute-long radio broadcast edited by Anja Mauruschat, featuring interviews with Wu Ming 1 and other people.]
64kbps - 28 megabytes - MP3 downloadable at
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/suoni/suoni.html
[It's a big file, we advise you to use a download manager if your connection is slow]
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At last our debut novel Q is available in English!
Heinemann / Random House has published it on 1 May 2003 in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Translation by Shaun Whiteside
A book extract from Q is available here.
You can buy Q from amazon.co.uk, and (why not?) leave your review.
***Reviews available at wumingfoundation.com:
THE INDEPENDENT, 26 April 2003
The mystery of Luther Blisset, By Boyd Tonkin
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/the_independent.html
THE TIMES, 30 April 2003
Big on Vision, Low on Focus, By James Eve
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/the_london_times_on_q_2003.html
THE SCOTSMAN, 4 May 2003
Inspiring Historical Fiction Comes Right on Q, By SB Kelly
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/the_scotsman_on_q.html
FLUX Magazine, UK, April/May 2003 issue
Q
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/flux_q.html
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, UK, Saturday, April 26, 2003 arts.telegraph.co.uk
Nicholas Blincoe praises an anarchic thriller set during the Papal inquisition
Intricate evasions
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/telegraph_q.html
WORD Magazine, UK, April 2003
It's A Funny Old Game
Conspiracy. Footballer LUTHER BLISSETT (Watford FC and AC Milan)
has become a hero to Italian anarchists. Why?
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/word_magazine_q.html
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, 9 May 2003
No Logo Reformation, by Bharat Tandon
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/times_literary_supplement.html
TIME Magazine, European edition, 26 May 2003
Penned It Like Blissett, by Donald Morrison
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/trime_magazine_q.html
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As to the British obsession with labelling us as "anarchists", here's what one of us wrote back in 1997
http://www.lutherblissett.net/archive/229_en.html
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By the end of Springtime Q will be available in the "Download" section of our website, free of any charge, in consistency with our copyleft philosophy. And a propos of this...
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The whole "non-romance languages" section of the website was restructured and restyled, and we are slowly translating texts into English.
Hopefully we'll find time to translate some of the texts we wrote in the past few months on the subjects of war, the global anti-war demonstrations challenging, the new colonial "white man's burden" rhetoric and so on.
There is a new section, "Omnia Sunt Communia", listing our writings on "piracy", plagiarism and intellectual property. Two new texts in English
COPYLEFT EXPLAINED TO CHILDREN - CLEARING OUR MINDS OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS
http//www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/outtakes/copyleft_explained.html
COPYLEFT PUBLISHERS HAVE EVERYTHING TO GAIN BY ADOPTING IT
http//www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/outtakes/copyleft_wm2.htm
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SPRINGTIME OF THE MOVEMENTS
On 11 May 2003 The Europeans, a radio program by the Australian Broadcasting Corporations, devoted an half-hour broadcast to the so-called "Springtime of the Movements", i.e. the recent upsurge of social protest in Italy.
The broadcast, which is now available for downloading on wumingfoundation.com, features the opinions of Wu Ming 1 and Franco "Bifo" Berardi.
Here's the "blurb" of "Springtime of the Movements", taken from the network's website:
"Silvio Berlusconi had the dubious honour this week of being the first serving prime minister of Italy to appear at his own trial. He’s been accused of shady business deals involving government property.
But, as Jason di Rosso reports, it seems that Berlusconi may also have the honour of helping fuel the resurgence of the popular left in Italy today. So powerful is he and his government, that the "official", parliamentary left is struggling to contain him. If you disagree with the current political agenda, your only option, it seems, is to take to the streets - and Italians have been doing just that in record numbers.
In the past few years a new social protest movement has emerged which not only seeks to redefine the idea of the left in Italy, but which freely exports its techniques and style to other protests, in other parts of the world."
FOR ADSL AND BROAD BAND CONNECTIONS
Download [MP3 + ZIP, 96kbps, 28mbs]
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/suoni/springtime.zip
FOR SLOWER, DIAL-UP CONNECTIONS
The broadcast is also available as streaming audio until the second week of June, by clicking the link below
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/europe/audio/euros_11052003.ram
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If you want to know more about Wu Ming's stance on the Italian movement:
WHY NOT SHOW OFF ABOUT THE BEST THINGS?
A Few Quick Notes on Social Conflict in Italy and the Metaphors Used to Describe It - by Wu Ming 1, December 2002
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/giap/giapdigest18.html
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