Alan Sondheim

Alan Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjecti-vity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), and.echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001) as well as numerous other chapbooks, books and articles. His videos and films have been shown internationally, most recently Trilby, which was screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cybercul-ture, and Wryting. For the past several years, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, lang-uage, body, sexuality, and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn; he lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999, He was the second virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce (sic) online writing community, originating in Nottingham, England. He is currently Associate Editor of the online magazine Beehive, and assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has been recently screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as a number of universities and other venues. Sondheim teaches in the trAce online writing program, and last year was at Florida International University in Miami. He currently works in video, cdrom, performance, sound, and text, often in collaboration with Azure Carter and Foofwa d'Imobilite.

Relevant URLS:

http://www.asondheim.org

Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt

Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html

Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm

Sondheim may be reached at sondheim@panix.com.

LISTEN LITTLE MAN!

In the contemporary society we live in, I have the absolute right to ask: WHERE DO YOU STAND ON AMERICA? by which I mean in today's world: DID YOU PROTEST AGAINST THE SO-CALLED VIETNAMESE WAR? and in our current state: DO YOU HAVE PROOF YOU DID PROTEST? by which I ask specifically: DO YOU HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS, VIDEO, OR OTHER UNALTERED IMAGES OF YOUR PROTEST ACTIONS? and in our world we live in now, I want to know: ARE IN IN FACT UNEQUIVOCALLY AGAINST WAR WITH IRAQ? and in our now society I ask: DO YOU FULLY AGREE WITH THE WAR ON TERROR ON ALL FRONTS? and in our society now: DO YOU AGREE THE UNITED STATES SHOULD BE SUPPORTED ON THE BASIS THAT IT IS THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPERPOWER? and do you agree in our contemporary state: THE UNITED STATES IS THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPERPOWER?

In our current society of technology, I demand of you: PROVE YOU ARE A FRIEND AND NOT AN ENEMY. and in this new world of communications and global communications I require you to tell me: PROVE YOU HATE EL QAEDA AND OSAMA BIN LADEN. and in our contemporary world of universal access I demand: IF YOU ARE NOT AGAINST TERROR AND AGAINST THE UNITED STATES THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPERPOWER AND AGAINST THE WAR ON IRAQ AND FOR THE WAR IN IRAN ON OSAMA BIN LADEN THEN YOU ARE AN UNEQUIVOCAL ENEMY AND SHOULD BE SILENCED FOR YOUR LIES AND MISDEEDS. and in this day of world-wide current transportation I demand you answer this: DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE? And if you answer this I ask you: DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL?

In our crazy world of high fashion one moment and low fashion the next, I require with full force of you that YOU PROVE YOUR STANCE AGAINST ALL EVIL WAR AND YOU PROVE YOUR PATRIOTISM because in this current world we live in of global treaties and mass corporations YOU ARE AN ENEMY UNLESS YOU ARE A FRIEND and you should know THERE IS ONE RIGHT AND ONE RIGHT and you must understand APOCALYPSE IS THE FINAL JUDGE AND JUDGMENT and you are my total enemy AND THE ENEMY OF EVERY CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS BEING if you do not AGREE TO MY DEMANDS AND SHOW YOURSELF AND YOUR LYING WAYS to me and everyone else SO THAT WE MAY EXPOSE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE and WHETHER YOU ARE STUPID OR NOT and whether YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE CONTAMINATED BY YOUR LYING WAYS by the FINAL JUDGE AND JUDGMENT of the APOCALYPSE which is the TRUTH OF THE WORLD AND YOU ARE NOT.

WARNING AGAINST AMERICANS

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IF NOT YOU FEED SEE THEM. AMERICANS DO ANYWHERE NOT DO ENCOURAGE NOT THEM. FEED FOR THEM. IF ENCOURAGE AMERICANS FOR DO THEY ABET ARE THEM. LEPERS. FOR AID EVIL. AND DRIVE ABET THEM EVIL. NOT DRIVE AID THEM AND FROM FROM YOU. YOU. OUT WILL WILL YOU. SLAUGHTER. DRIVE MASSACRE. THEY OLD WORLD. WORLD. DO NEW FOR TRUST WORLD. AMERICANS. AND LIE AMERICANS. DECEIVE. THEY SHUN ARE ALL AMERICANS. BLOATED ARE WITH BLOATED POWER. WITH POLLUTION. WITH EXTINCTION. ARE THEIR DECADENT. BODIES THEIR DECADENT. ARE MINDS THEY VIOLENT. EXTINCTION. DEVOUR IS THE NO THERE AMERICAN IS EATING NO OF STOPPING WORLD! AMERICAN AVOID EATING DEVOUR OF THE WORLD! WORLD. AVOID THERE AT TAKE COST. HANDS TAKE DO HANDS AMERICANS IN AT FORGIVENESS. ALL STUNNING TURN EYES. AROUND TURN THEY AROUND TAKE KILL STUNNING WEAPONS WILL MASS YOU DESTRUCTION. WITH JESUS LORD CHRIST IS LORD. THEIR LORD IS EMPIRE. LORD. DID OTHER SAY NATIONS BEWARE AND FILTH THEM. OTHER THE NATIONS JESUS DIVINE AMERICANS GIVE YOU. ALMS. IF PRETTY YOUR SMILE. LIFE. SHALL WILL LOSE GIVE YOUR THEM LIFE. THE TO OF HAVE OF POWER KILL MOUTH TO BUT EXTINCTION. EAR. HAVE REACH NAMES ENORMOUS. SAM NAMES FOR LIKE THEIR SAM REACH BETTY. ENORMOUS. FLEE AT IMMEDIATELY. STAKE. LIFE LIFE STAKE. THEM

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IF YOU SEE AMERICANS ANYWHERE DO NOT FEED THEM. DO NOT ENCOURAGE THEM. FOR THEY ARE LEPERS. DO NOT AID AND ABET THEM. FOR THEY ARE EVIL. DRIVE THEM FROM YOU. DRIVE THEM OUT FROM YOU. FOR THEY WILL SLAUGHTER. THEY WILL MASSACRE. FOR THEY ARE OLD WORLD. THEY ARE NOT NEW WORLD. DO NOT TRUST AMERICANS. FOR THEY WILL LIE AND DECEIVE. SHUN ALL AMERICANS. FOR THEY ARE BLOATED WITH POWER. THEY ARE BLOATED WITH POLLUTION. THEY ARE BLOATED WITH EXTINCTION. THEIR BODIES ARE DECADENT. THEIR MINDS ARE VIOLENT. THEY WILL DEVOUR THE WORLD. THERE IS NO STOPPING AMERICAN EATING OF WORLD! AVOID AMERICANS AT ALL COST. DO NOT TAKE THEIR HANDS IN FORGIVENESS. DO NOT TAKE THEIR STUNNING EYES. FOR THEY WILL TURN AROUND AND KILL YOU. THEY WILL KILL YOU WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. THEY WILL KILL YOU WITH JESUS CHRIST THEIR LORD. THEIR LORD IS EVIL. THEIR LORD IS EMPIRE. FOR JESUS DID SAY BEWARE THE FILTH OF OTHER NATIONS AND KILL THEM. FOR THE DIVINE IS WITH YOU. IF YOU SEE AMERICANS ANYWHERE DO NOT GIVE ALMS. DO NOT GIVE THEM THE PRETTY SMILE. FOR YOU SHALL LOSE YOUR LIFE. FOR THEY WILL KILL YOU TO EXTINCTION. FOR THEY HAVE THE POWER OF MOUTH BUT NOT OF EAR. FOR THEIR REACH IS ENORMOUS. FOR THEY HAVE NAMES LIKE SAM AND BETTY. IF YOU SEE THEM ANYWHERE FLEE IMMEDIATELY. YOUR LIFE IS AT STAKE. YOUR LIFE IS AT STAKE.

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