[thingist] THE CURRENT THING. A proposal for issue 2

[Keith Sanborn]

What about Tom Zummer?

> On May 29, 2021, at 6:14 PM, Caspar Stracke <kasbah at thing.net> wrote:
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> Dear all, 
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> One+ year into the pandemic we continue THE CURRENT THING. 
> The thematic framing of the next issue is actually a time-travel experiment.
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> We want to focus on off-culture and offline culture, makeshift technology and resistance. 
> As resistance.
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The deadline for submissions is: June 30, 2021
> Please use this mailing address: kasbah at thing.net
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> Yours,
> 
> Caspar Stracke
> & Keith Sanborn
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