[Nettime-bold] A great reason to say fuck Bosma and fuck the Thing. Incroyable.

[Nmherman@aol.com]

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This is truly an incredible post to nettime.  Nettime censors everyone like 
me or that likes me or is me.  They censor us in the spring and summer, 
morning and night, period.  I doubt if anyone in the world could get a post 
about Genius 2000 mentioned on nettime.  Also, The Thing owns nettime.  So 
you get a post from Bosma, the foremost interviewer of interartists who like 
the Thing, sending a plea as if from the barricades to donate money to her 
clique of prejudicial NYC fakes.  Her citing of Eno is offensive to a man of 
my caliber, as if I could be swayed by some old electronic music guy telling 
me what the internet is and who I am and how much I need the Thing to save 
the great works of art made in the last five years by the Thing's favored 
webmen:  Cary Peppermint (their ace reliever); GH "no discussion of Genius 
2000 on Thingist by anyone" and writer of sickening shit like Eryk alludes to 
often in his poems.  Bosma has of course declared Eryk to be brain dead or 
"instinctual," very similar to the "instinctual" Brad Brace.  Both Eryk and 
Brad have proven to be conundrums for the Thing, because they don't live in 
NYC so can't be bribed by party invititations and associate with known 
cultural polluter Max Herman.  Bosma wrote them their goodbye after Brad 
drove her interview into the proverbial "dogshitpile."  

So read this.  Imagine how you'd feel if you were in my shoes.  And remember, 
The Thing is a business hoping to make money.  Its hangers-on are merely 
there for the money and maybe the parties.  They can't be there because of 
the vital intellectual exchanges, that would be absurd beyond even Bush-era 
American norms.  

A great reason to say fuck Bosma and fuck the Thing:  the prose you will soon 
see.

Max Herman
(scroll down to see Josephine's stomach-turning letter filled with alarming 
phrases and epithets like "new kids on the block.")
The Genius 2000 Network
http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/yellow.JPG

(PS--George Gordon once said of his saucy Juan scribings "confess you dog and 
be candid, is it not life, is it not the thing?"  If Juan means anything to 
you at all or ever could, let not tired former punks sully the potential 
greatness of the oppressed and oppressive peoples of the United States of 
America.  We got many problems already don't add complete cutural fiasco.  If 
you try I will prevent you.)



Subj:    <nettime> support The Thing !!
Date:   4/19/2001 11:45:52 AM Central Daylight Time
From:   jesis@xs4all.nl (Josephine Bosma)
Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net
Reply-to:   <A HREF="mailto:jesis@xs4all.nl">jesis@xs4all.nl</A> (Josephine 
Bosma)
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net

'We live in the Digital Dark Ages', said Brian Eno recently at the Doors
of Perception conference. Most of our culture today will be lost for
future generations. Whether this is so not only depends on the unstable
technologies we work with, it mostly depends on the way we treat our
heritage. This heritage not only consists of texts and artworks, but it
also includes first and foremost the digital spaces these can sprout
from and reside in. 

One such space, The Thing New York, is now in a critical phase. For a
few years already this famous, even legendary server and host to
numerous cultural endevours is having trouble staying afloat. Funders
that were approached for help have neglected it in favor of new kids on
the block. Art institutions have failed to see the cultural necessity of
giving support to an institution that has an openness they don't
understand. Something needs to be done to open the eyes of both funders
and the general audience, in order to support and save this important
digital monument. The Thing definitely is such a monument even if it,
like most physical monumental buildings, is still part of a lively
culture. 

Read how you can support The Thing. Other actions to follow.


http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/sa/7414/1.html



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