/Giap/digest#23 - A lot of new stuff - 28 August 2003

 

New stuff in English on wumingfoundation.com

Huge piece about Q in the Guardian [UK] today. The book was pre-nominated for the newspaper's first book prize. If we win it'll be fun, since we never appear on TV and we don't allow anybody to take photographs :-)
We're sorry that British journalists keep calling the real Luther Blissett on the phone. The guy sounds more and more pissed off. If we were in his shoes we'd be pissed off too. Unfortunately, this is a consequence of both the UK being Mr. Blissett's home country (which is an excuse for cheap sensationalism) and the book being published in English after so many years. Back in the 1990's Mr. Blissett was admirably cool about the whole thing, also because all LBP activists repeatedly stated that "borrowing" his name was a tribute, not an act of disrespect. In the Autumn of 2003, nearly four years after the end of that project, people keep bothering him, and he's losing some of his patience. Cheer up, Luther, it can't last too long, we use a different name now :-)

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/guardian_prize_Q.html

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A review of Q by Australian writer and hacktivist McKenzie Wark. It was posted on the Nettime list and the Interactivist Info Exchange website in July 2003.
McKenzie Wark is the author of three books, Virtual Geography, The Virtual Republic and Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace. He was a co-editor of the Nettime anthology Readme! and with Brad Miller co-produced the multimedia work Planet of Noise. He lives and works in New York.
WM1 wrote to Wark: "I think you laid too much emphasis on our alleged Situationist influences, even if it is true that the SI's practical proposals were much better and more promising than Debord's theory."
Wark replied: "Quite so. I could have made a connection instead to Negri, who is well known here now, but that might have bored you even more!"
WM1 commented: "Hey, you're right now that I think of it! :-)".

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/mckenziewark_on_q.html

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This critic from the Pacific area says that Q is marred by too many "fuck's" and "shit's" :-)

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/less_fuck_Q.html

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A review of Q from Church Times, the world's leading Anglican weekly newspaper

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/rassegna/churchtimes.html

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