email archive final followup | The Employee by Joshua Schwebel

Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Marina Vishmidt <████████████████ >

Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 9:35 AM

dear Marina,

my apologies for the long silence. I hope you have been well.

I have been working on what has turned into an endless process of archiving emails for The Employee. When we last communicated, I had offered to send you the full finalized archive of your part in the conversations for your approval, alongside a smaller selection of emails that have been subject to redaction to keep certain aforementioned issues private. (these emails are separated only so you can confirm the level of redaction is to your satisfaction -- they are redacted in an identical way in the full archive, and the selection is only to save you the time of reading the whole thing).

Further, the publication has had a few holdups, mostly as we wait for stragglers to submit their texts. Most of the texts have been proofread, however, and things are still moving along.

I would love updates from you, and again, sorry for dropping out of contact.

warmest greetings,

Josh

Marina Vishmidt <████████████████ >

Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 3:16 PM

Dear Josh,

No worries, and this looks like a prodigious task!

I've just had a look at the redacted selection and it all looks fine
from where I'm sitting. Will this email be incorporated into the
selection as well?

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Apart from that, I've quit Goldsmiths and ostensibly will be starting a
new job in Vienna in October, though of course there's a lot of
logistics between now and then to traverse before can even start
thinking of what I will teach. It's also a German-language job, which it
clearly isn't, if they offered it to me, but that programmatic lack of
clarity is also causing me some anxiety. I guess in the first instance I
have to overcome my aversion to the language and take some steps to
learn it.

Otherwise life in the UK is grimly ridiculous, the UCU is an
embarassment (I wish we could dis-affiliate and re-affiliate with the
French sanitation workers instead), and deadlines are gathering. So lot
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How have things been in Berlin, apart from the extraordinary feats of
archiving and cataloguing? Glad to hear the publication is still on track.

all my best,

Marina