Notes to self.
A post or two over at Chez Colonelhas set wheels a turn in my head on projects I’ve been meaning to follow up on for a while…
Now see here: http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/FamousNyms.html
This guy identifies 1-to-1 (one pseudonym per person), n-to-1 (many names per person), and 1-to-n (many people per name) variants. The latter’s the most interesting to me.
Review Sabrina Ovan on Q and general intellect, see if Stan will give my copy of that book back, look into the Grant/Tito stuff in 54, Karen Elliott, Monty Cantsin, Luther Blissett. Ludd, Captain Swing, Robin Hood. Cher Colonel mentions John Bull, Jack Ketch, Joe Turner. Johnson and Forest and Cardan, Guido Baldi… can’t simply catalog pseudonyms (actually, yes I can, just can’t only catalog). The Ramones. Pirate pseudonyms and ship names.
Negri, Badiou, Schmitt, others on naming, events, constituting. Renaming. Thompson on the crime of anonymy.
Etymologies of pseudonymy, anonymy, nomoi, anomie.
unrelated note to self, but faster this way. Remember to puzzle through the interviews with Benasayag here:
http://pollici.blogspot.com/
Comment by Nate — January 4, 2006 @ 5:55 am
hi, nate! thank you for visiting me.
where do you live? chicago?
you can find the original Benasyag’s interview in french, linked in every single part of my translation. when I will finish probably I will put the whole of it in only one post or somewhere else.
your italian is not so bad, better of my english!
bye, francesco.
Comment by francesco — January 4, 2006 @ 11:27 am
Ciao Francesco,
Grazie a tu anche’. Abito a Minneapolis. Ho abitato a Chicago, ma I moved here in August. Ho studiato Italiano per 4 mese, e’ molto dificile per me a scrivere o parlare, leggere e’ piu’ facile. (E’ buono per me a pratticare.) Parlo Spagnolo, che me auita. Non ho Francese. Posso leggere un po’ di Francese perche’ e’ cerca a Spagnolo.
I’m very interested in Benasayag. Have you read the book he wrote with Diego Sztulwark? I’ve read a part of it so far and it’s really great. A friend of mine translated the Malgre Tout manifesto, Benasayag helped write that, that’s also very great. Hopefully it will be published soon. I have one other book by Benasayag in Spanish, called Pensar la libertad, but I haven’t read it yet. I got interested in Benasayag through things I’ve read from Argentina. How do you know his work?
ciao,
Nate
Comment by Nate — January 4, 2006 @ 2:52 pm
hey nate. the author JT Leroy is probably at least two people, but its the real name of one of them, maybe that’s a category. Mary Diana Dodds is an unusual case. and then pseudo titles, like Casanova enobling himself Seingalt. More composites:
Martinus Scriblerus, Alan Smithee, George and Georgina Spelvin and of course John and Jane Doe.
Comment by alphonsevanworden — January 5, 2006 @ 2:49 am
oh…Kilroy
Comment by alphonsevanworden — January 5, 2006 @ 3:03 am
ciao nate, plesae write me at my mail address and we could speak better about Benasayag.
and, maybe, about Bernardo Atxaga, another psudonym…
Comment by francesco — January 5, 2006 @ 3:02 pm
Istvan Kantor and Neoism. Scribblerus.
Comment by Nate — March 10, 2006 @ 6:29 am