[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Bush, China, and The Left....

[Nmherman@aol.com]

swray@io.com wrote:

But to undertake this first step, to inspire the conversation, to get a
dialogue going requires leadership. It requires inspired intervention. And I�m
not sure where that is coming from. I don�t see anyone spitting mad about
Bush�s new Cold War rhetoric. No one is on fire yet.

The dry tinder is there. Branches have been falling from the trees. It 
wouldn�t
take much of a flame to spark a roaring blaze.

++Max Herman replies

nettime doesn't like me (Byfield doesn't like me) but the Genius 2000 Network 
is the best bet for the kind of focused, fast-acting unity of all the various 
groups you mention.  Why?  Because we cut past the analysing that keeps 
artists, academics, pundits, and intellectuals employed, popular, and secure. 
 We are the real revolutionaries and Byfield censors everything we say off 
nettime.  

If you don't believe me, please email baseekins@netscape.com, 
alex@rhizome.org, fluxis@mediaone.net, or diocletian@visi.com.

Many say that I am an egotist because I am impatient and disapproving of the 
slow, careerist half-measures of the US intelligentsia.  They don't think I 
deserve as much power as I am requesting.  But it is my ideas that have the 
power, not me.  The ideas of Genius 2000 are rich and multifarious and rooted 
in the best source material of our time.  Netochka Nezvanova knows this; ask 
her at integer@www.god-emil.dk
Many of the most powerful artists and curators have seen my documentary, the 
Genius 2000 Video First Edition, but are afraid to fully discuss it for fear 
of career repercussions.  It's the true honest radicalism of a Blake or a 
Gandhi.  Matt Mirapaul at the New York Times has seen it; Steve Dietz at the 
Walker has seen it, David Ross at the SFMOMA knows my work very well.

But don't take my word for it.  Ask around.  Check the transcripts of the 
video at my site, http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000.  Ask Pat Lichty, 
voyd@raex.com about the video.  Ask MTAA (big NYC artists) about it, they've 
seen the video.  Ask Tom Sherman of the Syracuse University New Media 
department about me.  Ask Brad Brace of the 12-hr jpeg about me.  

If you want I will send you a free copy of the video so you can judge for 
yourself.

You are absolutely right that there is no more time for dithering and 
quibbling.

Best regards,

Max Herman
The Genius 2000 Network
http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/WinonaLaduke.JPG
(Me giving the First Edition to the VP candidate in Minneapolis)


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