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<nettime> Ccru datastream 9: The year 2000 will happen
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From: katasonix <data {AT} katasonix.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:21:41 +0000
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Y2k+ datastream 9
KO99
THE YEAR 2000 WILL HAPPEN:
Leaked Memo from the desk of Sir Christopher Stephens
All current indications suggest that our efforts to disappear socalled
Y2K+ activity from the mediascape have been entirely successful. As we
had hoped, the socalled Millennium Bug problem is generally being
treated as a merely technical matter, in no way involving issues of
calendrics and temporality.
Agents need hardly be reminded of the two principal Y2K + groupings and
their affinities. But since the threat they pose is highly significant,
it may be worth rehearsing their key commitments one more time. What is
at issue for both groups is what they insist upon calling a quote
cyberspace calendar. This is composed of the 2digit dating system
which, if left uncorrected, is likely to produce all the delightful
disasters with which our antiY2K propaganda has familiarised us . But
the catastrophe both groups are interested in concerns time itself. They
treat the occupation and dissemination of the computer calendar as a
quote chronopolitical matter, and contend that all attempts to fix the
Millennium Bug are to be considered acts of quote Gregorian restoration.
But the two groups differ radically in the set of doctrines they
extrapolate from the cyberspace calendar. One tendency, the socalled
continuists, claim that the cyberspace calendar establishes our year
1900 as Year Zero: our Year 2000, therefore, becomes their Year 100. The
other tendency, the socalled centients, make more mystical claims,
suggesting that the cyberspace calendar, beginning at 00 and ending at
99, establishes that there is quote one true century, cycling around
for all time. For all their differences, however, both groups have a
common goal: the destruction of the Millennium. These time sorcerers are
seeking to undermine western chronology itself.
Naturally, this can't be allowed to happen.
Needless to say, it is not sufficient to oppose Y2K+ activity; the
position must be rendered unimaginable. Y2K must remain a disaster that
happens in time, not to time. I think I can say with some confidence
that The Year 2000 will happen. And our preparations have been thorough;
we are wellplaced to ensure that any Y2Kproduced devastation that does
occur will skew things very much in our favour. It will certainly allow