<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img apple-inline="yes" id="6E748251-81CE-4672-94D4-6CE7E3F565E9" class="" src="cid:31E9187A-14B7-45BF-A18A-900CE6B879CB@Home"></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Dear all, </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">One+ year into the pandemic we continue THE CURRENT THING. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The thematic framing of the next issue </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">is actually a time-travel experiment.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">We want to focus on off-culture and offline culture, makeshift technology and resistance. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i class="">As resistance</i>.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">With that we imagine to completely eliminate the internet. At least for time being.<br class="">In conspiracy theory terms, we would like to propose the idea, that the internet does not exist. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Has <i class="">never</i> existed. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">We also want to extend this type of analog mindset: form follows content. <br class="">So the next issue will be a xeroxed magazine, only available offline, at your local copy shop </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(yes, we did research whether your city still had one!) <br class="">Also only available in cities, which have at least one contributor present.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">Once again we are inviting you, dear thingists, to contribute with a text, </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">an analog photo, a drawing or collage that embraces the topic of resistance, however defined. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">But one that defies digital technology.<br class=""><br class="">We are also interested in including texts that were written pre-internet. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Before March 11, 1989, to be exact, the birth date of the www, according to its founder, Tim Berners-Lee.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">If you happen to be old enough, maybe you can dig up some articles you wrote for fanzines or magazines, </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">see if you find a piece of writing that does not immediately reveal when it was written, and possesses a </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">special relevance to this moment in time, </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">to any type of resistance.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class="">Thirdly, we also welcome any kind of “what if” scenarios: imagining a current, </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">or future world without the internet, </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">mobile media, social media or the associated technology.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">The deadline for submissions is: June 30, 2021</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Please use this mailing address: <a href="mailto:kasbah@thing.net" class="">kasbah@thing.net</a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Yours,</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Caspar Stracke</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">& Keith Sanborn</div></body></html>