Wu Ming

Wu ming ( = " without a name " in Mandarin Chinese ) is an Italian writer collective that emerged in 2000 from the Luther Blissett Project and inserts itself in the ideological direction of the new social movements. The group lives and works in Bologna.

The novels of the group, especially 're here, " Asce di Guerra ", " 54" and "Q" to name ( the only one in German translated, 2002 by Piper -Verlag) will all be sold without copyright and are free to the homepage downloadable.

" 54 " is set in 1954 at various locations, for the most part but in the milieu of the former fighters of the Resistance in Italy and smugglers milieu. The story is in many different places and only sometimes intersect these narratives. So even Cary Grant plays an important role, which is hired by the British to represent in a movie Tito.

In their collective way of working thematize and negate the idea of the author. They insist that it actually does not exist and that writing, like any other form of human action is always something collective. If so, it is a logical consequence that no copyright, so can claim entitlement to intellectual property for themselves.

Content play a role models alternative history, the face of the official history. Not the lords and emperors were carriers of history, but each individual, the multitude in the sense of Spinoza and later Antonio Negri / Hardt Michael in "Empire".