Dear all,
One+ year into the pandemic we continue THE CURRENT THING. The thematic framing of the next issue is actually a time-travel experiment.
We want to focus on off-culture and offline culture, makeshift technology and resistance. As resistance.
With that we imagine to completely eliminate the internet. At least for time being. In conspiracy theory terms, we would like to propose the idea, that the internet does not exist. Has never existed.
We also want to extend this type of analog mindset: form follows content. So the next issue will be a xeroxed magazine, only available offline, at your local copy shop (yes, we did research whether your city still had one!) Also only available in cities, which have at least one contributor present.
Once again we are inviting you, dear thingists, to contribute with a text, an analog photo, a drawing or collage that embraces the topic of resistance, however defined. But one that defies digital technology.
We are also interested in including texts that were written pre-internet. Before March 11, 1989, to be exact, the birth date of the www, according to its founder, Tim Berners-Lee.
If you happen to be old enough, maybe you can dig up some articles you wrote for fanzines or magazines, see if you find a piece of writing that does not immediately reveal when it was written, and possesses a special relevance to this moment in time, to any type of resistance.
Thirdly, we also welcome any kind of “what if” scenarios: imagining a current, or future world without the internet, mobile media, social media or the associated technology.
The deadline for submissions is: June 30, 2021 Please use this mailing address: kasbah@thing.net mailto:kasbah@thing.net
Yours,
Caspar Stracke & Keith Sanborn
