Archive of Wu Ming
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“Go to the demo, it's f*****g important!” Wu Ming discuss politics, collectivity and singularity
The faceless (or many-faced) author collective of Altai surface for interviews in the Independent, Vice and 3:AM. -
How To Overcome Defeat: Wu Ming's Altai wins over the mainstream media
As Wu Ming's latest odyssey, Altai, wins over the mainstream media, here is our round-up: a profile interview in the Financial Times, Guardian review, New Statesman interview and Wu Ming select their top 10 utopias in a fantastic Guardian Books feature.
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The Financial Times, The Telegraph and Art Review on Wu Ming's Altai
Edward Stourton, writing for the Financial Times, recommends readers take Wu Ming's latest novel Altai on vacation to Venice, Stephen Abell for The Telegraph is delighted by this "swashbuckling romp dreamed up by four Italian anarchists," while Stewart Home visits Bologna to discuss politics and history with the elusive writing collective for Art Review.
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Wu Ming: "Berlusconi’s lackeys want to ban our books. They started from Venice. Let’s fight back!"
Wu Ming’s books, including Manituana, have been blacklisted thanks to a transparent attempt by "Berlusconi's lackeys" to divert public attention away from a regime in deep crisis by banning books and scapegoating intellectuals.
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Wu Ming on student protests in Italy: "Without a new story every battle is lost"
This week has seen student demonstrations and occupations across Italy as well as more in the UK. Amongst the students protesting Berlusconi's proposed education reforms, some of the most colourful took the form of the 'Book Bloc,' a group using painted shields representing works of literature against police in Rome.
Q, the first novel (written under the nom de plume Luther Blissett) by Wu Ming, the authors of Manituana, was, much to their satisfaction, on the frontline:
This afternoon, in Rome, students confronted the cops while carrying shields with book titles on them. The meaning was: it is culture itself that's resisting the cuts; books themselves are fighting the police. It was in this incendiary midst that our novel Q showed up, and in good company to boot: Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Plato's The Republic, A Thousand Plateaux ... It goes without saying that, whatever will happen, we're proud of what our novel is doing in the streets. Omnia sunt communia!
