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	Luther Blissett (nom de plume) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luther Blissett is a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavour.
		These multiple names were developed and popularized in artistic subcultures of the 1970s to 1990 like Mail Art, Neoism and post-situationist discourse, with the pseudonym Rrose Sélavy jointly used by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the surrealist poet Robert Desnos forming a historical pretext.
		The Multiple Name becomes a borderline experience, a live broadcast from the last promontory of the centuries: "At the beginning of a century you may act the experimentalist, but the end is like a western, one makes it a point of duty to describe what's happening and sum it up..." (Andrea G. Pinketts).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume) (890 words)

	¤ Multiple name ¤
		The concept is to gain fame by using a multiple name similar to the pop-artist, yet with the numerals the individual identity is stressed of the artist who join the multiple name.
		The use of multiple names in 'Neoism' was a reaction against false individualism in capitalist society, by using all the same identity, control and describing is impossible.
		First there is always the danger that multiple names become linked to individual artists and when artists were claiming to be the one and only "original" multiple name identity, a situation is created in which the multiple name identity is not "open" anymore.
	www.sztuka-fabryka.be /encyclopaedia/items/multiple_name.htm (2242 words)

	4Reference \|\| Luther Blissett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Luther Blissett was a footballer who played for Watford F.C. Milan and England during the 1980s.
		Luther Blissett is also a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for an artistic endeavour.
		The Luther Blissett multiple identity is particularly popular among Italian artists, possibly because of the A.C. Milan connection.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Luther_Blissett.html (851 words)

	The Luther Blissett Manifesto
		In the mid-eighties cyberpunk propagated an interesting metaphor, according to which information is a bank that we have to force open in the name of a free admittance to the data, challenging their secrecy.
		The Luther Blissett Project has been launched in the Summer '94 by an international gang of revolutionaries, mail artists, poets, performers, underground 'zines, cybernauts and squatters.
		A multiple name, if it was used outside small circles of radicals, would be a practical solution of problems such as the relation between community and individual, or the quest for identity.
	www.altx.com /manifestos/blisset.html (1301 words)

	autonome a.f.r.i.k.a. gruppe \| all or none?
		A multiple name is "a name that anyone can use": those who introduced it, whether they are known or unknown, single persons or groups expressly claim neither a monopoly on its use nor any kind of copyright.
		At the present, it is not a coincidence that the idea of multiple names appears where the bourgeois cult of the outstanding individual is most pronounced, specifically in the field of art.
		The origin of multiple names is lost in the mists of history, referring to ancient religious and magical practices.
	www.republicart.net /disc/artsabotage/afrikagruppe02_en.htm (1071 words)

	Luther Blissett bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Luther Blissett multiple name project (the name originally belonged to a British football player) was initiated in 1994 in Italy, and has since then been joined by dozens of mail-artists, underground reviews, poets, performers and squatters' collectives in cities throughout Europe.
		Luther Blissett has appeared in reports of ludicrous sabotages in Norway and Finland, in Hungary in a press campaign organized by a neoist for the liberation of a US political prisoner with the same name, in France in a collection of love letters to an unknown lady.
		In Slovenia, Luther Blissett wrote a manifesto called "10 Items of the Covenant." In Italy, Luther Blissett organized dozens of situationist assaults against the establishment, as well as situationist assaults against the establishment of situationism (Guy Debord).
	subsol.c3.hu /subsol_2/contributors/blissettbio.html (142 words)

	Q by Luther Blissett - review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Martin Luther had set the Reformation in motion when he nailed his 95 theses to the door of the prince bishop's church in 1517, questioning the sale of indulgences and the venality of the Holy See.
		Though this is a name of a real Milanese soccer player, it was chosen as a pseudonym by a group of four young people from Bologna, Italy, who are the authors of this novel.
		multiple name project (the name originally belonged to a British football player) was initiated in 1994 in Italy, and has since then been joined by dozens of mail-artists, underground reviews, poets, performers and squatters' collectives in cities throughout Europe.
	mostlyfiction.com /history/blissett.htm (1163 words)

	Absolute One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to Luther Blissett, it will be the veteran posse behind Bologna's equivalent of Karen Elliot, the anonymous ones that have been operating behind the name for at least five years.
		It is maybe not a coincidence that Luther Blissett's Seppuku note followed on the trail of a LB posting made by the authors of "Q", signed Luther Blissett and, in brackets, their four names.
		When we consider that multiple names were established to break away from recognition and financial reward in favour of anonymity, it becomes apparent that the authors of "Q" have committed what is in effect an act of cold-blooded murder.
	absoluteone.ljudmila.org /17.php (1360 words)

	[ L u t h e r B l i s s e t t . n e t ]
		Pynchon has paved the way for Luther Blissett's faceless name, and yet he is still settled in the century of historical tragedy.
		The ground stalked by all these precariously named characters is that of the frenzy and madness produced by an historical change in the infosphere, the invention and spreading of a new information technology, that is the press, the possibility of reproducing texts.
		Luther Blissett's novel depicts the tragedy of the proletarian community during the last five centuries, the modern age.
	www.lutherblissett.net /archive/442_en.html (1524 words)

	svet umetnosti 2000/01
		From the lecture on 'multiple names' which you held at the Škuc Gallery, we could deduct that neoism as a movement is actually based on these 'multiple names', i.e.
		The use of 'multiple names' is connected with the idea of a movement which on one hand turns around and on the other simulates its own identity.
		Ištvan Kantor used this name most often and most consistently and thus their identities seemed to naturally intertwine, especially due to the fact that Kantor, who is increasingly establishing himself as a classical video artist, often signs himself with both names.
	www.ljudmila.org /scca/worldofart/english/0001/int_oliver_ang.htm (2514 words)

	[ L u t h e r B l i s s e t t . n e t ]
		According to them, Luther Blissett is either an attempt at infiltrating the "Movement" with far-right theories and positions (because of the Avant-Bard and the détournement of Celtic imagery) or a gang of skillful recuperators who undersell "antagonism" to class enemies.
		Blissett's communication strategies happened to recall both the way some serial killers pass through the city scattering signs, staging enigmas, leaving code messages etc. and the way myths of rebels and outlaws like Robin Hood, Billy The Kid and the likes modified the social perception of sites and territories.
		It cannot be a coincidental occurence that most of the people adopting the multiple name fanatically devour and quote crime and mystery stories (especially James Ellroy, a skillful manipulator of pop mythologies as well as a maniac re-mapper of urban spaces) and comics (Frank Miller being apparently the favourite author).
	www.lutherblissett.net /archive/283_en.html (3457 words)

	[No title]
		In the depths of the informal 'network of events' which these teams of mind invaders are setting up, one of the most interesting practices of merry prank is the so-called MULTIPLE NAME, a technique particularly improved by the NEOISTS.
		Luther Blissett is a -dividual, because the character has many personalities and reputations; Luther Blissett is also a con-dividual, because many individuals share the name; Luther Blissett is a multitude as well as a 'decentralized subject,' a project aiming to what Karl Marx called 'Gemeinwesen' (i.e.
		Luther Blissett is not an (anti)artist like KAREN ELIOT: s/he's a cultural terrorist who supports the religious programme of the NEOIST ALLIANCE.
	www.sniggle.net /Manifesti/blissettNature.php (900 words)

	<nettime> Who the fuck is Luther Blissett?
		This was the last sentence of an early text by the Luther Blissett Project, possibly its very birth certificate, which was published on Derive Approdi magazine in March 1995.
		It is the latest, maybe the last one, because the Luther Blissett Project, nay, the Bologna-based group adopting this collective alias, has decided to continue their journey in another disguise.
		According to Blissett, in the name of the defence of the state, the constitution was torn to pieces, with the engagement of intellegence agencies, the alliances between politicians and magistrates, the vicious circle between the media and public prosecutors, and the full-time interference of Vatican long hands.
	www.nettime.org /Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9907/msg00108.html (1052 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many subjectivities of the Luther Blissett Project Italian columns have decided to greet the new millennium by committing seppuku, a ritual suicide.
		Seppuku is our suggestion for those who have used the name for at least the past five years, so that they look for new styles of this martial art, and let the "newcomers" free to develop their own plans.
		Blissett's purpose has always been infiltrating "mainstream culture" as a trojan horse and opening the city's doors to multifarious experiences.
	vnatrc.net /YAST/TEXTS/text_57 (542 words)

	New Statesman: A footballer writes. . - Books - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Luther Blissett, having recently rejoined the coaching staff at Watford, had an alibi.
		The Luther Blissett "multiple single" identity (now defunct) was in fact the creation of a group of leftist radicals in mid-1990s Bologna.
		It is a book with hundreds of names and not one character, which see-saws alarmingly in tone between the self-consciously contemporary ("for fuck's sake") and the primly old-fashioned ("a well-appointed table").
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4642_132/ai_104081270 (754 words)

	svet umetnosti 2000/01
		So what happened was that with this multiple names concept, the multiple - this kind of artwork so typical for the times of recession - was transferred through Neoism from the work onto the artist him/herself.
		Today, one of the typical problems of the multiple names concept is that the multiple name in many cases stays in a way connected to the inventor or the main proprietors of that name.
		One of the political examples for the use of multiple names is the Angry Brigade, which was responsible for a series of bombings in the late 60's and early 70's.
	www.ljudmila.org /scca/worldofart/english/0001/tekst_oliver_ang.htm (2465 words)

	Luther Blissett : Luther Blissett, multiple name
		Luther Blissett is also the name for what the BBC has called a "group of Italian anarchists" despite this being wildly innacurate as the group isn't limited to Italy or to anarchists.
		Reports have suggested that Blissett, one of the first fl footballers to play in Italy, may have been chosen to make a statement against right-wing extremists in the country.
		Luther Blissett isn't a 'teamwork identity' as reported by the journalists; rather, it is a MULTIPLE SINGLE: the 'Luther Blissetts' don't exist, only Luther Blissett exist.
	www.fastload.org /lu/Luther_Blissett,_multiple_name.html (739 words)

	Radio Eye - 3/11/2001: The Luther Blissett Enigma
		Luther Blissett is a fl British footballer who was 'bought' for a record fee by the prestigious Italian club AC Milan in the early 1980s.
		Much more than a prank, the Luther Blissett phenomenon proposes radical new ways to consider identity, originality and collective action in a world obsessed with individual celebrity and continued a tradition of multiple names reaching back to the Berlin Dadaists.
		The program includes accounts of Luther's first sighting as a multiple identity on the Rome underground, his conversations with fellow multiple-namer Karen Eliot, commentary from Blissett scholars Stewart Home and Vittore Baroni and original music and text by Luther Blissett.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/radioeye/stories/s248897.htm (267 words)

	Luther Blissett, Totò, Peppino e la guerra psichica 2.0, Torino, Einaudi, 2000; pp. 233
		molti il nome Luther Blissett ricorderà il calciatore britannico d'origine giamaicana acquistato dal Milan pre-berlusconiano nella stagione 1983-84, in realtà l'autore di Totò, Peppino e la guerra psichica 2.0è un'entità multipla, un multiple name, per usare il termine più appropriato.
		Luther Blissett in tal senso è un'entità decisamente al passo con i tempi che corrono, anzi in grado di prevederli ed incanalarli al proprio fine, ovvero la guerriglia psichica: per aderirvi basta aderire al Luther Blissett Project, attivo da anni anche in Italia sia nella rete, che sulla carta stampata ed infine nell'etere radiofonico.
		All'interno si possono trovare assemblati i materiali più diversi inerenti al Luther Blissett Project: divagazioni filosofiche, volantini, manifesti, escursioni fumettistiche, teatro situazionautico, escursioni esoteriche, rudimenti di psicogeografia, i sermoni radiofononici dell'avambardo L.B., recensioni cinematografiche di film mai visti, proposte per centri sociali, le mitiche beffe blissettiane.
	www.scanner.it /libri/luther2000900.php (194 words)

	Luther Blissett, XYZ of net activism
		Luther Blissett is a pop myth, a collective "open" pop star.
		The concepts underlying LB (multi-use name, open pop star, political avatar) can be a powerful tool in building a mass movement, as well as for a popular spreading of net.culture and the net.criticism of inner circles like Nettime or N5M, thereby ejecting the networks out of the Net.
		All the activists have the same name, all the activists are the same multiple pop star.
	subsol.c3.hu /subsol_2/contributors/blissetttext.html (2027 words)

	Orbis Quintus » Blog Archive » Luther Blissett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Luther Blissett was the pen name of an Italian writer’s collective that raised ruckus in Italy and wrote a novel, Q, set during the Wars of Religion in the years after the Reformation.
		In Slovenia, Luther Blissett wrote a manifesto called “10 Items of the Covenant.” In Italy, Luther Blissett organized dozens of situationist assaults against the establishment, as well as situationist assaults against the establishment of situationism.
		54, named after the year in which it is set and written by the writers’ collective that previously published as Luther Blissett, is a baggy story of post-war Italy at the height of the cold war.
	www.orbis-quintus.net /blog/?p=1424 (1018 words)

	Luther Blissett
		Oder, wie Luther Blissett es selbst in zahlreichen Schriften ausdrückt, "the multi-use-name bearers are never the same, do not know each other and their respective activities are completely different" (In: http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199902/msg00102.html).
		Luther Blissett und Neoismus werden oft in einem Atemzug genannt, ihre Verbindung ist jedoch umstritten.
		Behind Luther Blissett (and behind 'Q' as well) there is no boss, no mysterious scholar, nor have we been the only Blissetts who contributed.
	www.linke-buecher.de /texte/internet/luther-blissett.htm (3592 words)

	Clifford Brown on Neoism as seen by Clifford Brown. A critical view of a late-20th century avant-garde art movement. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is the weakest aspect of this historification that it reinforces and builds up on the notions of linear time and contiguous space, "tradition," "influence," "evolution," "spirit," pretending at least their validity in order to pass off itself as credible.
		Neoists adopting the name Monty Cantsin attempt to live and explore the paradox of a persona that is one and multiple, a subjectivity which, as neither and both collective and individual, attempts to render its own dialectical base meaningless--not unlike Neoism itself, which is a prefix and a suffix without a middle.
		His involvement was fruitful as he reinforced Monty Cantsin as a multiple name and supplied those of SMILE magazine and White Colours.
	www.phys.psu.edu /~endwar/neoism.then.html (1034 words)

	Luther Blissett: Ray Johnson - A Zapatista in Greenwich
		There is a best-selling book written in Italian by "Luther Blissett" which put into circulation a metropolitan legend on Ray Johnson and his involvement in the "Luther Blissett" international multiple name project.
		It seems that those who were using and sharing the name "Luther Blissett" since the beginning of 1994 (nobody knows who launched this project, there's a lot of myths flying around it) decided then to insert Ray Johnson in the pantheon of the "imaginary founders".
		A brief explanation is required: Luther Blissett was a British soccer player who retired in the late Eighties.
	www.artpool.hu /Ray/Publications/Blissett.html (654 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Q by Luther Blissett - review by Stewart Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The book is called Q and although it is attributed to Luther Blissett, the vigour of its anti-narrative is rooted in the fact that it emerged from the combined imaginations of four young upstarts who just happen to live in Bologna and scribble in their native Italian.
		Instead, Luther Blissett uses numerous tricks to avoid endlessly reproducing the narrative of closure, and among the more obvious of these is the length of the book.
		Luther Blissett also began her cultural odyssey as a phantom identity adopted by hundreds of prank pulling activists albeit twenty-five years after Grogan.
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=03/06/23/0812228 (2975 words)

	notes from somewhere bizarre: The many lives of LB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The many lives of LB Been reading a book by Luther Blissett, called "Toto' Peppino e la guerra psichica 2.0".
		A multiple name that came into being in the mid-nineties, Luther Blissett (LB) has been behind a series of media pranks and acts of semantic terrorism in Italy and across Europe, reaching as far the USA.
		The book in question is actually a reprint in single volume of two earlier books by Luther Blissett, and is to be taken as a “serious” tome – unlike, for example, another book by LB called net.gener@tion which has been described as a hoax perpetrated against a major Italian publishing house.
	www.ashleyb.org /archives/000043.html (369 words)

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