Category Archives: Wu Ming

A book reading meme

Posted on November 12, 2011 by

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House. I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood The last book I finished? Thaisa Frank, Heidegger’s Glasses … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gottfried Leibniz, H.P. Lovecraft, Martin Heidegger, Peter Gratton, Umberto Eco, Wu Ming | 1 Comment

Roundup – PhDs, Connolly, Banning Books, Congratulations

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

Over at Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton has begun a new series of advice posts, this time on ‘How to Plan a PhD’. Will be interesting to see this one develop. Adrian Ivakhiv reports his first thoughts on William Connolly’s … Continue reading →

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Triptych, not a Trilogy

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

On one the interesting things in the Wu Ming interview comes in the third section of the audio, where they describe their Manituana book as the first in a triptych, not a trilogy. The second is on the French Revolution. … Continue reading →

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Wu Ming recording of British Library talk

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

Two of the Wu Ming collective spoke at the British Library in October. The audio recordings can be found here. Some very interesting reflections, especially on collaborative writing.

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Holiday reading

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

I don’t read novels nearly as much as I should, partly due to a lack of time, and also because  spending my time reading so much for work doesn’t exactly make reading a very relaxing break from it. But holidays … Continue reading →

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Book Bloc

Posted on January 2, 2011 by

The ‘book bloc’ has been one of the most interesting things in the recent student protests. There is a genealogy of the term here. This is a guide to making your own:- All these links are courtesy of Wu Ming … Continue reading →

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Free Wu Ming

Posted on December 4, 2010 by

You can download Verso’s translation of Wu Ming’s most recent book, Manituana, free here.

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Literary protests – image from Wu Ming

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

Wu Ming kindly sent me a link to a better picture of the literary themed protests.

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Student Protests – K-Punk on the media; Wu Ming on the literature

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

K-Punk offers a sharp analysis of last week’s events here, along with some good discussion of the mainstream media’s take on it all. I particularly enjoyed this line: It looks as if the situation might be starting to dawn on … Continue reading →

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Wu Ming 1 on Foucault in Iran

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

Find it here. Two excerpts… In October 1978, Michel Foucault (hereafter cited as MF) visited Iran. The country was already shaken by street protests against the Shah. The regime was brutally repressing demonstrations, with the only result of strengthening the … Continue reading →

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