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2009:
BE READY, THE MAGISTER IS COMING BACK...
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 Verso Books, London / New
York, 2009
Thomas Müntzer's
incendiary words, offered with a long narrative introduction by Wu Ming
entitled
Spectres of Müntzer at Sunrise.
[A Chilly Night on Mexico's Central Plateau, the Making of Q,
the Battle of Seattle and the Biggest Police
Ambush in Italian History]
What
the publisher says:
"The Reformation was originally an attack on a corrupt Church, sparked
by Martin Luther. Thomas Müntzer, originally Luther's protégé, became
increasingly convinced that the Reformation did not go far enough. In
1524 he became one of the leaders of the Peasants' War, where the
struggle against the Church exploded into a revolutionary attempt to
realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Wu Ming, the five Italian
authors who, under the name Luther Blissett, wrote the best-selling
novel Q about the Radical Reformation, ask why
Müntzer has inspired radicals for almost 500 years."
192
pages - ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 320 9
US$14.95 / £7.99 / CAN$16.50
February 2009
To pre-order the book:
UK - USA - CANADA
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...AND WE'RE COMING BACK
TOO!
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The novel  Manituana
was written in the 2004-2007 period and was published in Italy in March
2007. It is the first episode of an 18th-century pan-Atlantic trilogy
which we'll complete with no hurry. All novels will be set on the
backdrop of the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783, all across the
Ocean (North America, Europe, the West Indies and Africa).
Manituana reached as high as  #4 in the Italian
best-seller charts. In 2009 it will be published in English
by Verso, in French by Métailié and in Spanish by Mondadori.
Manituana is also at the center of a
complex transmedia project.
 The
official website is here. In time, ever more texts will be
available in English.
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NEVER
FORGET THAT ALL THINGS ARE COMMON
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 NEWSLETTER
ARCHIVE
Giap is our newsletter, and
it's in Italian. From 2000 to 2007 Giap/digest
was the (very irregularly sent out) English version. It was very
difficult to keep it going, plus RSS feeds and other innovations were
making newsletters obsolete as a way of reaching people. Evolve or die.
The Italian Giap has long become a monthly 'zine
with about 12,000 subscribers. As to the English edition, well... we
called it quits. Here's the archive, in case you want to 
check the back
issues. There's good stuff in there. And if you read Italian,
take
a look at Giap.
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