Luca Di Meo (Wu Ming 3 – He left the group in the spring of 2008 ).The members of Wu Ming are typically known as "Wu Ming 1", "Wu Ming 2", "Wu Ming 3", "Wu Ming 4", and "Wu Ming 5". As of 14 January 2009, the image is completely absent from the group's official website. The picture that Wu Ming used as an "official portrait" from 2001 to 2008, when the quintet became a quartet. As a result, "anonymous" became the preferred interpretation of the name. The group has since grown to include more than five members.
"Wu Ming" is also a reference to the third sentence in the Daodejing: "Heaven and Earth's nameless origin" ( traditional Chinese: 無名天地之始 simplified Chinese: 无名天地之始 pinyin: wúmíng tiāndì zhī shǐ). The name is meant both as a tribute to dissidents ("Wu Ming" is a common byline among Chinese citizens demanding democracy and freedom of speech) and as a rejection of the celebrity-making machine which turns the author into a star. In Chinese, " wu ming" can mean "anonymous" ( traditional Chinese: 無名 simplified Chinese: 无名 pinyin: wúmíng) or, with a different tone on the first syllable, "five people" ( Chinese: 五名 pinyin: wǔ míng 名 is a measure word), the pun being part of the reason the collective adopted the name. Their books are seen as part of a body of literary works (the "nebula", as it is frequently called in Italy) described as the New Italian Epic, a phrase that was proposed by Wu Ming. The band authored several novels, some of which have been translated in many countries. Unlike the open name "Luther Blissett", "Wu Ming" stands for a defined group of writers active in literature and popular culture. Wu Ming, Chinese for "anonymous", is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna.įour of the group earlier wrote the novel Q (first edition 1999). Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Luca Di Meo, Federico Guglielmi, Riccardo Pedrini
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