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Qualcuno (mio zio) chiede con insistenza di leggere altri luridi post della più migliore serie del monTo, Truck Driver. E chi sono io per non accontentarlo? Evidentemente il testina di vitello in questione non sa utilizzare un normalissimo ‘search’ di un sito internet quale il pregievole Kaizenology. E allora? Che facciamo, discriminiamo? Inoltre non avevo un cazzo di nuovo da scrivervi, ma volevo comunque muovere le acque – dicono gli esperti che un blog troppo fermo è un blog cadavere, dicono… Sarà. Ah, ma qualcuno per caso ha mai capito perchè si dice ‘coccodrillo’ in italiano e ‘crocodile’ in inglese (o simile in altre lingue nordiche, comunque con la ‘r’ dopo la prima consonante)? Che è successo a quella ‘r’ maledetta, è scivolata sull’olio fino a dopo la ‘d’, nella nostra lingua? E perchè mai? Secondo me la spigazione è semplice, in barba a tutti i complottisti del mondo: i due pellegrini (o mercanti, o guerrieri, o sacerdoti) di nazionalità diverse che in qualche Anno Domini del Medioevo si sono incontrati che so, a Luxor 🙂 e hanno indicato l’un l’altro – a debita distanza – il grosso lucertolone che si spaparanzava nel fango, semplicemente non si sono capite bene. Non hanno sentito bene. E la traduzione se n’è andata affanculo. Capita. Pensateci. Ci sono anche altri esempi. Scriveteli qui sotto. Adios

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Pubblicità

I quaderni di Cirene sono in arrivo

Questa è la storia di un uomo di settant’anni che ha tenuto testa a un esercito invasore.

Questa è la storia di una ragazza deportata che è diventata donna combattendo in un altro paese.

Questa è la storia di un giovane medico arrivato ai cancelli dell’Eden dal profondo Nord in cerca di se stesso.

Questa è la storia di un italiano dai molti nomi che ha combattuto in Spagna, in Cina, in Etiopia e in Francia prima di tornare a casa e continuare a combattere.

Questa è la storia di un ragazzino dal cuore di leone che voleva far fuori i nemici della libertà.

Questa è la storia dell’uomo che fece sparire il radio.

Questa è la storia del comandante gentile che gli amici chiamavano Lupo.

Questa è la storia di un ferroviere anarchico.

È la storia di due luoghi chiamati “Cirenaica”: un rione di Bologna con le vie intitolate ai partigiani e una regione della Libia dove l’Italia ha commesso un genocidio.

È la storia degli abitanti della Cirenaica vicina che hanno deciso di ricordare la Cirenaica lontana.

diffondi il demone:

Resistenze in Cirenaica Reloaded

Segnatevi la data: il 22 gennaio, a partire dalle h. 18, al Vag61 di Bologna ritorna Resistenze in Cirenaica. Presenteremo l’omonimo libro autoprodotto, che raccoglie i materiali della giornata del 27 settembre (testi, foto, disegni), integrandoli con altre informazioni, mappe, e stralci della seduta del 1949 durante cui il consiglio comunale votò la rimozione dei toponimi coloniali dalle vie del rione Cirenaica.

Con quest’autopubblicazione inauguriamo la serie chiamata «I Quaderni di Cirene». Dopo la presentazione, cena di autofinanziamento, e dopo la cena, reading con musica. Perché Omar al-Mukhar, tuttora calunniato dagli «italiani brava gente», cavalca ancora. Altri dettagli a seguire. Ci vediamo in via Paolo Fabbri 110.

A proposito, ma chi era ‘sto Paolo Fabbri, che tutti han sentito nominare per via dell’album di Guccini? Beh, era un grande. Lo sapevate che fu tra gli organizzatori della fuga da Lipari di Emilio Lussu, Carlo Rosselli e Francesco Fausto Nitti.

Di nuovo sul Delta

Resistenze in Cirenaica

RESISTENZE IN CIRENAICA

Una giornata di storie e musica nella contrada «patria del ribelle»

Bologna, 27 settembre 2015

Dalle h.11 al VAG61, via Paolo Fabbri 110

PRANZO SOCIALE

con presentazione del progetto, reading di Wu Ming e Kai Zen e musiche, con Guglielmo Pagnozzi & Brigate Sonore.

€12 a testa + beveraggi

Dalle h. 16 in giro per il quartiere

TREKKING URBANO: VISITA NARRATA AI NOMI DELLE VIE
Wu Ming 2 racconta storie di guerriglia antifascista

con Atopie Sottili e  musiche di Guglielmo Pagnozzi & Brigate Sonore.

Dalle h.19 al giardino pubblico «Lorenzo Giusti» di via Barontini

DA UNA CIRENAICA ALL’ALTRA

Happening sulle resistenze anticoloniali e antifasciste in Libia, Etiopia, nei Balcani e a Bologna

Wu Ming, Kai Zen, Compagnia Fantasma e Valerio Monteventi raccontano le vite ribelli di Omar al-Mukhtar, Ilio Barontini, Lorenzo Giusti, Paolo Fabbri e storie di guerra alla guerra dall’Africa all’Italia.
Colonna sonora dal vivo di Kai Zen / Bhutan Clan, Fabio Tricomi, Camilla Serpieri, Claudia Finetti.
Proiezioni a cura di Compagnia Fantasma, Kai Zen e Michele Lapini.

Buffet e bevande a cura di Eat The Rich, Condominio Bel LE Trame e  Associazione Naufragi.

Ingresso libero.

A cura di Spazi Aperti e VAG61

Kai Zen live @ VAG 61

Kai Zen goes NABA: 27th May 2014, at 6:00 pm

Milano, Strangeways Here We Come

NABA continues the collaboration with Indiana Production started on the occasion of the project “Italy in a Day, un giorno da italiani”, docu-film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and co-produced with Rai Cinema and Scott Free, hosting the series “Collective Frames. Research Lab on the artistic and collaborative production”. The protagonists of the third appointment “Cronache da un’identità collettiva sulle pratiche di scrittura collaborativa”, taking place at NABA Campus on May 27th, will be Aldo Soliani and Jadel Andreetto of Kai Zen.

The series of appointments, promoted by NABA Multimedia Arts and curated by Maresa Lippolis, Course Leader of NABABA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, will present the fourth and last event “Il montaggio come mappa nel film Italy in a Day” with Chiara Griziotti on 3rd June.

COLLECTIVE FRAMES

Cronache da un’identità collettiva sulle pratiche di scrittura collaborativa
Tuesday, 27th May 2014, at 6:00 pm
NABA – Building L, Room L 0.2
Via Darwin 20, Milan

 

Italian Literary Writing in the Anthropocene a.k.a. Kai Zenland

Figure 1: A reproduction of the Ramsund carving. Key: (1) Sigurd cooking Fafnir’s heart and tasting its blood; (2) the birds singing to Sigurd about Regin’s intention to betray him; (3) Regin beheaded, his smithing tools scat- tered about; (4) Sigurd’s horse loaded with treasure; (5) Sigurd slaying Fafnir; and (6) O ́tr, whose accidental death at the hand of the god Loki kickstarts the saga (Kai Zen, Delta blues 8).

Alessandro Macilenti is a graduate student of Italian at the School of Languages and Cultures of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is interested in determining how literary language can convey urgency to the environmentalist narrative and can increase awareness of environmental degradation among readers.

Here’s a work written by Alessandro (supervised by Dr. Sally Hill) for the the Victoria University of Wellington on our second novel Delta Blues. We are very proud to be chosen, among others, by Alessandro for his PhD thesis and what you’re about to read on Delta Blues is something that has surprised ourselves too. Here we go, Down Under (on the right). 

Here you can find the PDF of the work.

1 Delta blues

Kai Zen is an ensemble of writers which includes Jadel Andreetto, Bruno Fiorini, Guglielmo Pispisa, and Aldo Soliani. The Kai Zen have authored Ti chiamer`o Russell (2003) and La potenza di Eymerich (2004) in cooperation with Wu Ming and other writers. More recently, they have independently published popular titles such as La strategia dell’ariete (2007) and Delta blues (2010), which have been made available in various electronic formats on the group’s website through the Creative Commons license CC-by-nc-sa, which enables anyone to freely copy and modify the text for non-commercial purposes as long as attribution and the same license are preserved in the derived texts (Creative Commons). The practice of releasing literary material under the Creative Commons licence was adopted by Luther Blissett and is continued by Wu Ming. The Creative Commons licence encourages the dissemination of ideas, and allows access to information worldwide to anyone

who might need it for non-commercial purposes, without a requirement for monetary compensation.

1.1 Overview of the Novel

This section analyses Kai Zen’s most recent book, Delta blues, which has also been published in paperback by Edizioni Ambiente in the VerdeNero series. Delta blues is a rewriting of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness which conveys a strong environmentalist and social message highlighting the plight of the people living in the Niger Delta, an ecosystem ravaged by the activities of transnational oil corporations. Martin Klein and Ivo Andri ̧c, codenamed Tamerlano, are Delta blues’ main characters. Klein is a geologist working for the multinational Ente, a transparent reference to the Italian corporation Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Eni), which has major interests in petroleum extraction in Nigeria. In an interview, Jadel Andreetto declared that they chose to mask the name of the corporation in order to “ripararci da eventuali ripercussioni legali” [protect ourselves from possible legal repercussions]. The narration swings between the points of view of the two main characters: Martin Klein and Ivo Andric, both Ente employees. The former is an engineer whereas the latter is an Istrian secret agent instructed with the order to find Klein — though it is never clear whether his intentions are to rescue or to eliminate him. From his reports and from Klein’s emails to his daughter, we learn that Klein is interested in developing renewable energy sources in Nigeria. Unfortunately, his interest gains him enemies within the backward- thinking Ente, who enact a conspiracy to silence him. Thus, Klein is sent away on a mission with the alleged goal of researching alternatives to oil in the Niger Delta but whose real purpose is to have him eliminated. But Klein soon vanishes in the depths of the jungle and is rumoured to have joined the local resistance against the oil corporations. Andri ̧c is enlisted to find him. As the action proceeds, Andri ̧c’s chase leads him ever deeper into the horror of the Niger Delta, a formerly fertile ecosystem where everything reeks of death, oil, and corruption. Eventually, Andric discovers that local resistance movements have begun to worship Klein as a papaloa, a witch doctor possessed of supernatural powers.

The Italian (Milky) Way To Science Fiction 5

 The 1984-like atmosphere of post Genoa seemed to plunge the country into a song by The Clash: Know your rights.46 If the poetics of Evangelisti were close to heavy metal, Riccardo Pedrini’s–aka Wu Ming 5 (the collective of writers Wu Ming was born from the ashes of the situationist Luther Blissett project)–was a direct offshoot of punk. Pedrini came from the experience of squats, redskins’ movement and was the guitarist for the bolognese punk oi band Nabat.47 Pedrini, until then, an essayist and historian of radical youth movements, after having written in 2000 Libera Baku ora, for the independent publisher Derive e Approdi, a dystopian novel that mixes Philip K. Dick and Noam Chomsky in 2001 published Havana Glam (Fanucci48), a novel that is set in an alternative 1970s world where David Bowie is a communist sympathizer and has a “Cuban period” instead of a “Berlin period”. This causes some turmoil in Havana, as the Cuban intelligence suspect the rockstar of being a US infiltrator from the future.

Havana Glam runs in parallel to the second historical novel by the Wu Ming collective, “54” 49, a novel that tells different and convergent stories set in 1954 in which, at the end, some characters, disgusted by the turn of political Italian events, decide to leave Italy and go to support a certain Cuban lawyer, an Argentine doctor and a handful of guerrillas on their way to Cuba.

In 2005, Guglielmo Pispisa, a member of Kai Zen (the collective of which I am a member) after his debut novel à la Kurt Vonnegut, Multiplo, published by the small indie Bacchilega Editore, went major (Einaudi) with Città Perfetta50, a novel that skillfully blended Vonnegut, William Gibson, Tom Robbins, Neal Stephenson with the socio-political context of Berlusconi’s Italy, but with an ironic and elegant style.

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The issue of immigration, from the end of the Nineties, has become a huge social issue in Italy. Governments, whether left or right, were unable to deal with the issue while post- communist Europeans, Asian and African masses of desperate people fleeing from hunger, war and dictatorships sought to enter Europe through its ports on Italy’s Mediterranean shores. The question of otherness became and ever more pressing metaphysical question. The shadow of an alien invasion was invoked by a number of right-wing parties, while the government opened detention centers, called CPTs in Italian, which were little other than lagers where immigrants were detained (and theair legal and human rights suspended), while waiting for identification and expulsion.

Fazi in 2006 published the essay by Tommaso Pincio ( a pseudonym that refers to Thomas Pynchon) entitled Gli alieni. Dove si racconta come e perché gli extraterrestri sono giunti fra noi (Aliens. Which tells how and why the aliens have come to us), an essay that clearly alluded to the immigration situation, which was followed in 2008 by a sci-fi hard boiled novel that echoed the same issue, Cinacittà, where Rome in the near future will be colonized by China.51

In 2009 Massimo Gardella, published Il quadrato di Blaum (Cabila Edizioni), an interesting mix between Isaac Asimov and George Orwell. Nowadays Gardella is an appreciated and sofisticated crime novel author.

On the dark side of the moon, in 2010 Gianluca Casseri, a minor fantasy author and essayist and neo fascist militant of CasaPound52, wrote with Enrico Rulli, the novel La chiave del caos,53 with a preface by Gianfranco De Turris, the critic that always looked on sci-fi and fantasy as a right wing literary phenomenon that deals with symbols and tradition. Some months later, Casseri, driven by the sense of honor of a hero that defends his land from an alien orcs invasion, or better: driven by hate and xenophobia, killed two boys from Senegal in broad daylight in Florence with a .357 magnum and then committed suicide. It wasn’t either hyperreal or super real, it was the brutal truth, reality once again knocked hard at the doors of unconscious.