[-empyre-] Re: Cybermind Gender Project (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

(This might be of interest re: Gender. Rose died shortly after; she was 
the heart and soul of Cybermind. - Alan)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:21:42 -0300
From: Rose Mulvale <r.mulvale@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: Jon Marshall <jmarshal@ol.com.au>, Alan Sondheim <sondheim@PANIX.COM>,
    Angela Thomas <aaxthomas@icqmail.com>,
    Angelauni Thomas <a.thomas@edfac.usyd.edu.au>,
    Caitlin Martin <caitlin@well.com>, lexie <eldon@PANIX.COM>,
    Lynne Harding <HardingL@cbs.curtin.edu.au>,
    Salwa Ghaly <sghaly@SHARJAH.AC.AE>,
    Esther Milne <e.milne@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Cybermind Gender Project

won't be in on this, i'm afraid - the next great adventure is closing fast
(reading becoming difficult, writing almost impossible)(imagine! `-)

good luck with all your projects... thank you so much for sharing over the
years.  remember that each moment is a miracle and should be lived as such.

love to all,
rose (who is so far resisting the temptation to view oxycodone-drenched
moments as more worthy than pain-filled ones)

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i write not only when ive got something to say
      but when ive got a feeling for saying

Kerry Miller   (from correspondence with
                         Poh Kum, July 1970)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther Milne" <e.milne@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au>
To: "Jon Marshall" <jmarshal@ol.com.au>; "Alan Sondheim"
<sondheim@PANIX.COM>; "Angela Thomas" <aaxthomas@icqmail.com>; "Angelauni
Thomas" <a.thomas@edfac.usyd.edu.au>; "Caitlin Martin" <caitlin@well.com>;
"lexie" <eldon@PANIX.COM>; "Lynne Harding" <HardingL@cbs.curtin.edu.au>;
"Rose Mulvale" <r.mulvale@NS.SYMPATICO.CA>; "Salwa Ghaly"
<sghaly@SHARJAH.AC.AE>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: Cybermind Gender Project


> Jon that is such fantastic news! (not, obviously, about being unwell).
>
> is that an ARC grant then? I thought you'd pretty mcuh given up. Well
done.
> And thanks too, for keeping me in the picture - i still really want to be
> able to contribute something.
>
> lexie - your research sounds very interesting but i can't say it's the
> first time i've heard about it :)   i've 'seen' you on a couple of lists
> and, like jon, CM is a central site of research for my thesis.
>
> anyway, jon - keep in touch about the project (although obviously i will
> try and keep up to date via the website).
>
> cheers,
> Esther
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 10:28 PM 2/10/2002 +1000, Jon Marshall wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > This note is something of an apology. As you all will have worked out,
> > the Gender Project has been on hold for some while. Some of you will
> > know that for the last 6 or so months I've had something of a health
> > failure, which now appears to be clearing up. Also I got a little burnt
> > out with the Internet, and someday the real 'why the Internet is so
> > boring' article will get written. On top of that responses from my
> > reviewers and panels during application for funding were so negative
> > that I thought the project had little practical chance of coming to
> > fruition. As a result other projects, such as earning a living, moving
> > in with my lover and so on, took priority.
> >
> > Today it looks like I have been awarded funding for the project which
> > will begin some time next year - preferably after i've finished
> > editing/proof-reading some four theses (which is currently occupying my
> > time). I think this means that we can now actually move into the first
> > part of the project with some anticipation of success. Hence I'm
> > seriously reminding people of the desire to get some publication of
> > essays and mutual comments on the essays together and out as soon as
> > possible - realistically to the publisher by the end of next year,
> > perhaps sooner. I apolgise deeply for all this mucking around but from
> > now on things will get better.
> >
> > I would also like to thank people for their support over what has been a
> > fairly despairing period in my life, and to apologise again to those of
> > you with whom I have had less contact than I would have liked or that
> > you deserved.
> >
> > I would invite people to look at the gender project web page again. I
> > will be putting up the full text of the application today. Hope you can
> > all resummon enthusiasm for it.
> >
> > The gender page is
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/jpmarshall.geo/cybermind/gender/index.html
> >
> > the official project description is
>
> http://www.geocities.com/jpmarshall.geo/cybermind/gender/gender-project-pro
posal.rtf
> > I will send a similar mail to CM tommorrow, but I figure all you you
> > deserved to know first.
> >
> > jon