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  Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: How Slapshot Inspired a Cultural Revolution (Part ...
Luther Blissett is a multi-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe since Summer 1994....For reasons that remain unknown, the name was borrowed from a 1980's British soccer player of Afro-Caribbean origins.
In the early/mid Nineties the "Luther Blissett" collective identity was created and adopted by an informal network of people (artists, hackers, and activists) interested in using the power of myths, and moving beyond agit-prop "counter-information".
Luther Blissett was a person -- well, sort of, I mean that he was an anthropomorphic figure, he literally embodied what was happening all around.
www.henryjenkins.org /2006/10/how_slapshot_inspired_a_cultur.html   (3433 words)

  
  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.
Luther Blissett, the multiple identity is named after the footballer Luther Blissett who used to play for A.C. Milan amongst other teams.
Blissett, the footballer, is known to be aware of the 'group' taking his name but reports differ widely in saying whether he likes the attention he receives because of them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume)   (912 words)

  
 Luther Blissett
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.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/l/lu/luther_blissett.html   (846 words)

  
 Luther Blissett : Luther Blissett (footballer)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Luther Blissett was a footballer who played for Watford F. Luther Blissett was a footballer who played for Watford F.C. Milan and England during the 1980s.
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.
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.termsdefined.net /lu/luther-blissett-(footballer).html   (931 words)

  
 Luther Blissett - England International Footballer - Football-Heroes.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Luther Blissett's blustering style for Graham Taylor's industrial but effective Watford team of the early 1980s rightly earned him an England call-up by Bobby Robson, never afraid to pick the strikers who were scoring, no matter how robust their own style or that of their team.
This was no surprise, as Blissett had made his surprise move to AC Milan by the time, and the consequent draining of his confidence in front of goal rendered him unplayable for a game which urgently needed a reliable goal getter.
Blissett is forever in the England history books, and it remains one of football's great quirks that a striker's only goals for his country came in the form of a hat-trick in one match.
www.sporting-heroes.net /football-heroes/displayhero_international.asp?HeroID=10981   (368 words)

  
 Luther Blissett
He was the first fl footballer to play for England, and scored a hat-trick on his debut.
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 is not 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.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Luther_Blissett,_multiple_name.html   (704 words)

  
 Luther Blissett (nom de plume): Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Luther Blissett is a multiple identity, a nom de plume (nom de plume: An author's pseudonym) that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavour.
Luther Blissett, the multiple identity is named after the footballer Luther Blissett (footballer Luther Blissett: more facts about this subject) who used to play for A.C. Milan (A.C. Milan: more facts about this subject) amongst other teams.
Indeed the BBC reported (see) that Luther Blissett is also the name of a "group of Italian (Italian: A native or inhabitant of Italy) anarchists (anarchists: An advocate of anarchism) ".
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/luther_blissett_nom_de_plume   (1129 words)

  
 BBC News | Football | Luther Blisset - anarchist hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
When Luther Blisset was banging the goals in at impressive regularity during an illustrious professional career, he hardly suspected that one day he would be a cult hero among Italian anarchists.
Luther Blisset - the anarchist grouping rather than the former goal ace - has even entered the world of literature, with books on, among other things, the Renaissance and a 16th century Pope.
"Luther Blissett is not a 'teamwork identity' as reported by the journalists; rather, it is a multiple single," one of the sites states.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/football/293678.stm   (502 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | From Watford striker to top novelist - but only the name's the same
Luther Blissett, the former Watford and England footballer who became a cult figure in Italy following a disastrous season at AC Milan, may not have realised he was also destined to become a talented novelist.
The unwitting footballer, who rose to fame in Italy because of his spectacularly dismal season as an AC Milan striker in 1982, became the codename for art installations, militant action and random spoofs including an exhibition of "chimpanzee art".
Blissett might be relieved to know that his self-appointed clones collectively committed a "ritual samurai-style suicide" in December 1999, when their five-year project, inspired by Stalin's first five-year plan to collectivise the Soviet economy, came to its scheduled end.
books.guardian.co.uk /firstbook2003/story/0,13840,1030782,00.html   (1121 words)

  
 Telegraph | Sport | Philip on Saturday: Blissett not flattered by enduring fame
The authors of Q, a band of writers operating as a co-operative, are merely the latest in a long and varied line of people across the world who have hijacked Luther Blissett for their own aims, including a pirate radio station in Madrid and a group of radical architects in Brazil.
The real Luther Blissett is known to be somewhat less than flattered by his new-found iconic status and is at a loss to explain the phenomenon.
Luther Blissett (footballer) made 14 international appearances for England between 1982-84 - scoring a hat-trick against Luxembourg on his full debut - while Luther Blissett (authors) have produced a novel which, for reasons I can not fully fathom, is completely 'unputdownable'.
www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/06/07/sfnrp07.xml   (1159 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, a Legend of the Global Ignorance - by Klára Kiss-Pál
One of the discoveries was that he was in contact with a certain Luther Blissett, an anonymous person in the art world, who didn't belong to the famous people appreciated by Ray.
In the spirit of Luther Blissett (often ascribed to Ray Johnson), there were sabotages, performances, video screenings, pyschogeographical explorations, all creating a commotion worthy of Ray Johnson.
After having aknowledged that the reputation of Blissett was better in England than in Italy (in the 1982-83 championship he scored 27 goals), Stewart Home, with his fellows of the London Psychogeographical Association, went to Greenwich for a psychogeographical "drift"[3].
www.artpool.hu /Ray/Publications/Legend.html   (2327 words)

  
 METAMUTE : M24: Web Exclusives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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.
Q itself is one vast detournement, a calculated and provocative reuse of the artistic heritage of humanity for partisan propaganda purposes; and it was bricolage of precisely this type that formed the main plank of the anti-cultural programme advocated by the lettrists and situationists.
Luther Blissett also began her cultural odyssey as a phantom identity adopted by hundreds of prank pulling activists albeit twenty-five years after Grogan.
www.metamute.com /look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=846&ST_max=0   (2608 words)

  
 Orbis Quintus » Blog Archive » Luther Blissett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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.
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.
www.orbis-quintus.net /blog/?p=1424   (1020 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Luther   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Martin Luther - German theologian and Augustinian monk involved in the Protestant Reformation.
Luther Blissett - nom de plume for several artists and writers.
Hans Luther - German politician and Chancellor of Germany.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Luther   (97 words)

  
 New Statesman - A footballer writes
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.
Their aim was to remind us, in the unusually lucid words of lutherblissett.net (the movement's closest thing to an official voice), that bourgeois conceptions of authorship and copyright "prevent people from realising that writing is always a collective process, ideas are nobody's property, and 'genius' does not exist".
www.newstatesman.com /200306160045   (864 words)

  
 Time Magazine on Luther Blissett's novel Q - May 26, 2003
Now Luther Blissett is back in the headlines as the author of Q (Heinemann; 635 pages), a novel of vast inventiveness, remarkable erudition and highly peculiar origins.
The British edition appeared earlier this month, and negotiations are now under way for one in the U.S. But Luther Blissett the footballer didn't write a word of Q. His name was hijacked in the mid-1990s by a band of liberarian-left cyberactivists in Bologna.
They called themselves the Luther Blissett Project because, as they wrote in one of their many manifestos, Blissett is "the ineffable alias that means both everybody and nobody." Ineffable is an apt word for the group's nonfiction: dense Internet screeds against globalization, political corruption, corporate control of the media and other capitalist sins.
www.wumingfoundation.com /italiano/rassegna/trime_magazine_q.html   (798 words)

  
 Wu Ming Foundation & Luther Blissett Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Luther Blissett's media hoaxes were crowded with imaginary artists, because the art world is crowded with gullible people and makes for a perfect target.
The end of the Five Year Plan was celebrated with the release of Luther Blissett: The Open Pop Star, a cd compilation filled with weird electronica, mysterious voices and wild cut-ups.
Luther Blisset (with only one t) is the title of a song from Tuxedomoon's album Cabin in the Sky(2004).
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 Luther Blissett (footballer): biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Blissett played for Watford for a second time until 1988 (scoring another 44 goals in 127 appearances), Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Blissett holds the records for the most appearances (415) and scoring the most goals (158) for Watford, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
His notorious year playing for Milan has inspired the name of the Italian nom de plume/anarchist collective Luther Blissett (Luther blissett is a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic...)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/luther_blissett_footballer   (1087 words)

  
 Vico Acitillo, 124 - Poetry wave: Documenti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Luther Blissett, to start at the top, was once the best footballer in England, as well known and beloved as O.J. Simpson was over here, before he got accused of cutting throats.
Luther Blissett the First (as we better call him for clarity) went back to England, remembering his triumphs and trying, I suppose, to forget the racism.
Luther Blissett the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth manifested a few years later when four workers were arrested for riding on a train without a ticket.
www.vicoacitillo.it /situaz/wilson.html   (1184 words)

  
 RACISM IN FOOTBALL REPORT (more lies) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Football has to do more to combat racism, according to a new hard-hitting report.The Independent Football Commission (IFC) says greater efforts have to be made to include ethnic minorities at every level of the game.
Progress in tackling racism on the football pitch and the stands is not being mirrored at the top of the game, according to a new report.
Football is a sort of a safety valve for pissed of white people.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=115613   (1179 words)

  
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"Luther Francone", a Luther Blissett relative in Argentina, by Luther Blissett.
Blissett crackdown: "Solidarity from Richard Barbrook and the HRC".
"Seppuku!" the Luther Blissett's ritual suicide, by Luther Blissett.
www.lutherblissett.net /indexes/thematic_en.html   (1860 words)

  
 New World Disorder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The answer is "Luther Blissett": both the real name of a high-scoring West Indian-born footballer who bloomed at Vicarage Road but faded at AC Milan, and the stolen sobriquet of a Bologna-based conspiracy of cultural pranksters.
Until 1999, the "Luther Blissett" collective staged a series of hoaxes and stunts at the expense of the Italian media.
For all the dense thickets of ultra-left theory around their japes, "Luther" were playing the same game of trick-and-mock as Chris Morris or Ali G. Before dissolving "Luther Blissett", a group of jesters signed off with a bang.
www.newworlddisorder.ca /blog/2003/04/mystery-of-luther-blisset.html   (152 words)

  
 Word Magazine (UK) on Luther Blissett's Q
Was this the Luther Blissett, the former Watford striker who infamously lost his goalscoring touch while enduring terrace racism during one season for AC Milan in 1982?
In 1997, four men were tried in Rome for riding the tram without tickets: in court, all called themselves Luther Blissett [it never happened, wm.n.].
'Luther Blissett' is now defunct - the group abandoned the named in December 1999 and adopted the collective epithet Wu Ming: 'No Name'.
www.wumingfoundation.com /italiano/rassegna/word_magazine_q.html   (577 words)

  
 Luther Blissett - TheBestLinks.com - Nom de plume, Luther Blissett (footballer), Disambig, Luther Blissett (nom de ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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