Posted in Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 31 December 2014| 1 Comment »
Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf online, tagged big data, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 31 December 2014| Leave a Comment »
Ever wonder about how the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway might change if her characters participated in social media?
Well, let me introduce Joshua Rothman, who writes about ideas and books for NewYorker.com and is also the archivist at The New Yorker. He explores that concept in an interview on data privacy.
In it, he speculates about how Clarissa Dalloway’s life might be affected if a photo of her kiss with Sally Seton, an event she never shares with anyone, had been posted on Instagram, for example. He also wonders how her memory of that kiss would be affected.
Rothman and the other participants in the interview speculate about how the digital age is changing the process of forgetting and forgiving — and forcing us to remember things we may want to forget.
Because in a digital age, forgetting is costly and hard, and remembering is the default. – Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
You can read the article, “Big Data, Virginia Woolf, and the Right to be Forgotten,” or download the podcast on the Policy Innovations website.
Posted in A Room of One's Own, events, tagged A Room of One's Own, Sarah Blake, Virginia Woolf, Woolf's birthday on Monday 29 December 2014| Leave a Comment »
In celebration of Virginia Woolf’s birthday, Sarah Blake will perform A Room of One’s
Own at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at 7 p.m. Sadly, though, the event is sold out. But you can place your name on a waiting list by emailing cabinetsofcuriosity@talktalk.net.
The free performance will take the audience back to the 1928 lecture that forms the basis of the argument that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write.”
Read an interview with Blake about adapting Woolf’s polemic for performance and an article in The New Statesmen about women’s ongoing fight for a place of their own.
Posted in Lytton Strachey, quotes, tagged Christmas 1931, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf on Thursday 25 December 2014| Leave a Comment »
Lytton [Strachey] is still alive this morning. We thought he could not live through the night. It was a moonlit night. Nessa [her sister] rang up at 10 to say that he has taken milk and tea after an injection. He had taken nothing for 24 hours and was only half-conscious. This may be the turn or it may be nothing. Now again all one’s sense of him flies out and expands and I begin to think of things I shall say to him, so strange is the desire for life. – Virginia Woolf”s Diary, 25 December 1931
For quotes from more authors regarding their Christmas week blues, read this Dec. 22, 2014, article in The Independent.
Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged Virginia Woolf novels on Wednesday 24 December 2014| 1 Comment »
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