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Wu Ming is a collective of anonymous Italian authors, a group that grew out of the Luther Blisset collective, known for the popular novel Q. Wu Ming have been active for over a decade now, releasing many novels collectively and individually, as well as co-writing the script to Lavorare con Lentezza (Working Slowly), a fantastic…
And when it fails to recoup? Well, maybe: You just haven’t earned it yet, baby. -Morrissey The Smiths – “Paint a Vulgar Picture” When it comes to discussing the current state of the music industry, our core concepts are so poorly articulated and limited that most discussions are led astray before any progress is…
–Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster (download the complete text at the link above) Rancière, in the early 1980s during a heated national debate on education in France, wrote his wonderful little book The Ignorant Schoolmaster, in which he looks back on “the great thinker of emancipation,” the post-French Revolution era schoolteacher Joseph Jacotot. Jacotot’s great…
by Joseph Sannicandro Joseph.Sannicandro@gmail.com As entertainment obessed consumers, we rarely ever think about where things come from, let alone the hidden costs of production. How is it that ethnic violence in central Africa has anything to do, causally, with my owning an iPhone or playing videogames? ——- The ravages of ethnic violence in the Congo,…
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