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About "NEW THING" unidentified narrative object, WU MING 1

1. In 1994 a group of artists, activists and pranksters have decided to adopt a common identity and called Luther Blissett. want to ignite hell on cultural industry. Together, they tell a great story and create a legend, giving birth to a new folk hero: Luther Blissett. This "guerrilla" organized campaign of solidarity with victims of censorship or repression . But all made jokes about media as a way art, explaining or claiming what defects the system has been used to publish or make public false information. In 1999 came the most famous appearance of Luther Blissett, to appear as author of the anonymous and collective novel Q, published in March and quickly translated into several languages. Despite its unusual bill and of the peculiar characteristics of the edition (which, anticipating a creative commons license, authorizing the imprint in the handling and total or partial reproduction of the novel, provided if it were a non-profit) Q novel became an important sales success.

Blissett In 1999 the project ended and some of its members are, at Since 2000, Wu Ming ("no name" in Mandarin Chinese), a project more closely linked the narrative, eg ro just as radical as the previous, editing numerous successful experimental books and articles on various topics. Wu Ming literature, and particularly in New Thing, is an exercise that combines techniques of plagiarism and diversion, reading hypertext, personal references, etc. result of extensive previous research.

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2. New Thing is a book in 2004, with the first English edition in 2008 and also freely available digital. On the outside, is actually a kind of collage-fiction, made by the voice of many characters, newspaper articles, interviews and declassified in its present and past, 1967, in full flame of free jazz band p riots sound or the rights of blacks. Indeed, in the environment of these musicians, many murders are committed by an entity to which the black community nicknamed "Whiteman's son."

Langmut Sonia, a journalist, daughter of German immigrant family in times of the Great War , runs the clubs and nightclubs, collecting interviews and the most radical musicians of his time in an old record Butoba MT5. Langmut, a girl known for his particular stamp on the New York jazz environment, is suddenly in the midst of the killings and begins a intubation itive research, guided by "ghost man" magical musician who spends his life while account is consumed by the in disease.

3. So, Wu ming could be a crime novel, but is rather a hackneyed genre parody, among many other simultaneous readings. Wu Ming 1, the author, also known as Roberto Bui, had expressed great knowledge and analytical skills of black culture in other excellent texts. New Thing is a book that can also be read as an exciting and inspiring story of racial strife in America, during the sixties, the development of the Black Panther Party and the fate of one of their leaders as Stockely Carmichael, who died in Africa under the name Kwame Toure. Speaking of music, but in a lighter, but very clear. Refers to the origin of free jazz, from disgust to cool, the positions had to be taken against the end (for some, the cry free from Africa to other children's radicalism did not play in favor of blacks but white intellectuals).

The Black Pather Party was for the American state in 1969 "the greatest threat to homeland security." The FBI Cointelpro operating from 50, extinguishing the way out all that smacked of insurgency groups (communists, New Left, civil rights movement) but in addition, each station had a hard Cointelpro own and gave to blacks in the streets.

In the words of Julia Mey, white wife of the second musician died in the book, saxophonist Tyrone "Ekundayo" Jackson, "Black Power" meant self-determination, for example, the right to govern communities where blacks were the majority, but as another character says of the book, "Black Power" picked up in two words a process of many years the rediscovery of Africa, an Africa of mind, being black, that was not so much color but the experience kept the community together. Black youths took up arms and created a very effective network self-defense and solidarity support (dining, education, for example) under anti-capitalist principles, antimiliaristas, autonomous.

4. On the "Whiteman's Son" is created across an urban legend born from the Black Brooklyn, and gathered more closely in The Brooklynite and others (like the Gotham Chronicle, where they wrote the jazz critic and peculiar character key to the resolution of the plot, Franklin Plotinus).

government conspiracies and mystical intersect with the inept police investigation officer. So, too, Wu Ming becomes a source of knowledge about the everyday cultural spirit and folklore of the streets black, where there was already rap, was a power black church militant and the music was a source of identity that transcended all white music since the advent of rock & roll and before. The murderer is nicknamed by Paul Whiteman, conductor target in the twenties. Paradoxically, the first King of Jazz was white. Neither Armstrong or Ellington or Bechett Sydney, but Whiteman!

The killings of the book are happening with an increasing rate and Langmut only have your recorder as a weapon in an environment in which death can affect anyone who poses a danger. Your luck increases and their inquiries are pointing the right direction, thanks to the intuition of the mystery informant named "Man of the ghosts", intense character more clearly identified as the reading progresses. The unraveling of the case is quite surprising, given the turn to history.

5. Destabilizing activities of Cointelpro and the intelligence apparatus were criminal, so the danger, heightened by the collective paranoia of the conspiracy, he suggests a new "Son of Whiteman" when Albert Ayler's body was found floating in the East River on November 25, 1970. The truth is that was autopsied as accidental death, but the mystery of his death has even inspired a book called "The Thirteen deaths of Albert Ayler" (Gallimard, 1997), in which thirteen authors speculate on it. Moreover, truth is also New Thing presents itself as an allegory of repression in Italy in the 70's and as a tribute to the power of Black culture.

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"The African American contribution has somehow" de-Westernized "culture, has introduced an idiosyncratic way of playing and creative fleeing European musical notation, the" temperament "Ring instrumental in getting the sound "fair." The influence afroatlántica changed even our body language, especially the male, through the power of contagious examples has led to less rigid postures. The embodiment of rock'n'roll, of indisputable African American roots, has drawn attention to the abdomen and pelvis, where there are many rigidities and contracturas”