[Xmca-l] Re: General check-in?

[Alfredo Jornet Gil]

Dear Helena,

This list is not shutting down any time soon, and it is for its members to populate it. There are a number of parallel channels (e.g., associated to the re-generating chat project of which you are part, and the re-making of the Cultural Praxis website) that certainly have moved attention away for some of us; but technically and institutionally xmca will continue along MCA.

Here in Norway things are calming down after the big restrictions enacted at the beginning of March. A rich state with a strong public health system… we are privileged among the privileged, and can’t complain. Our luxury problems here involve dealing with the domestic annoyances and challenges of forced homeschooling while re-inventing ourselves as distance educators, building community while respecting restrictions, etc… Fortunately, those with whom I have closer contact in this and other networks are healthy and safe so far.

Thanks for caring and looking forward to hear from others,
Alfredo
From: <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of "Goncu, Artin" <goncu@uic.edu>
Reply to: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 21:28
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: General check-in?

Hi Helena,

Greetings from Chicago.  Warm regards,

Artin Goncu, Ph.D
Professor, Emeritus
University of Illinois at Chicago
www.artingoncu.com/



From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Helena Worthen
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 1:56 PM
To: Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com>; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Subject: [Xmca-l] General check-in?

Hello, XMCA-ers -

I don’t remember ever having read that this list was going to shut down or even be allowed to fade away. So now I’m writing, as if in the dark, to the whole list.  We’ve now got a major — maybe “the” major crisis of the anthropocene on our hands and the distant but connected network represented by the conversations on this list seem to me to be a treasure more precious than gold - and I’m not speaking metaphorically.

I am concerned about some of the people who have been pillars and resources on his list, people whom I have reached out to over the years and heard back from with information and perspectives that I would never have been able to access on my own. Where are you now? What are you doing? Are you safe and healthy? Do you have information about friends who are unable to read or respond to this request?

I hope to hear some responses to this message.

Take care of yourselves, please —

Helena


Helena Worthen
hworthen@illinois.edu<mailto:hworthen@illinois.edu>
21 San Mateo Road, Berkeley, CA 94707


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