Manituana - Wu Ming
Fantastically researched historical fiction about the Iroquois, a group of native American tribes who side with the British during the American war in independence.
54 - Wu Ming
1954. Hollywood actors, cold warriors, mobsters, drug dealers and homing pigeons. What will Yugoslavian president Tito do, now that Joe Stalin is dead? What is the hidden link between Lucky Luciano in his Italian exile, Cary Grant in schizophrenic combat with himself and a stolen TV set which turns out to be self-conscious and sensitive to boot? So far, the most ambitious Wu Ming collective novel.
A book bloc's genealogy
A potted history of the book bloc - often students demonstrating against cuts to education using shields decorated as giant books.
23rd November, 2010: Book bloc hits the streets of Rome
Italian students begin actions, occupations and blockings using mock books as banners and shields.
24th November: Book bloc gets its name
A class apart: A hundred years of Cary Grant
An article by Wu Ming on Cary Grant, masculinity and style as a martial art. Translated by Bianca Colantoni, it first appeared in the Italian daily paper L'Unità on January 18th, 2004.
Today is the centennial of Archibald Alexander Leach's birth, better known as Cary Grant. We'll never know if such an event had long been foretold by the constellations or whether it was anticipated by bizzarre events. Anyway, it was an important event for the following reasons.
Fetishism of digital commodities and hidden exploitation: the cases of Amazon and Apple
An essay written by the Wu Ming Foundation around the time of Steve Jobs' death which lays out the facade of the corporate 'miracle' and argues against net-fetishism.
[The original version of this essay was published on Giap on 26 September 2011, several days before Steve Jobs died. The French version was published on Article XI on the eve of Jobs' death.
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