[Personal_archives] Fw: New Yorker article on Susan Sontag's Archives at UCLA

[Heather Home]

From: Heather Home
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 11:13 AM
To: Rodney Carter <rgscarter at gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Personal_archives] New Yorker article on Susan Sontag's Archives at UCLA

There was that other article about the Sontag journals in the Dec 22 &29, 2008 issue of the New Yorker.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/12/22/081222crbo_books_pinckney

They seem to be following the story –
In that article they quote Sontag as saying:
One of the main social functions of a journal or diary is precisely to be read furtively by other people.

So she might be okay with her mail being read too… or maybe not. Interesting to think about that actually. The diary as a fairly careful construction of self, whereas mail is a different construction and revelatory in a different way (not necessarily so controlled by the creator).. meandering thoughts for a Friday morning indeed.

Heather


From: personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Rodney Carter
Sent: January-31-14 10:52 AM
Cc: Personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Personal_archives] New Yorker article on Susan Sontag's Archives at UCLA

Hello everyone,

Yesterday, the New Yorker published an article discussing Susan Sontag's archives at UCLA which discusses the paper records as well as the digital files in the fonds (and the problems faced for preserving the latter).
As with the Rushdie archives at Emory, it looks like UCLA may be emulating the computers in the reading room for users to access the files "as Sontag would have seen it".
It also briefly discusses the ethical considerations of reading other people's mail - and subjecting their files to detailed, computer-assisted analysis.
A nice little read for a Friday.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/01/in-the-sontag-archives.html
All the best,
Rodney
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