Ashley Peña

Archives and Canons

After spending much of the semester searching for blogs, digital literature, and looking on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube f0r other forms of digital text, I have come to the conclusion that digital culture has become very much embedded into that of traditional culture. This meaning that while I can still pick up a traditional piece of literature such as a newspaper or novel, I am likely to encounter at the end of a newspaper article a blurb that says visit our blog online for more information. Or at the end of a novel in the about the author section, it may say something about reading the authors blog for information about up and coming novels.

Places Archives Were Found

Many of the examples of digital literature, blogs and other literary examples I have archived from this semester can be linked together via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google.

For this project I have six different categories that I put my archives in. These categories are: Digital Poetry, Art, Literature/Informative, Authors found on Twitter, Authors, Books and Blogs, and lastly, cooking and food blogs.

Archive Categories

Love Bomb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XaCB-rD9Jg&feature=player_embedded

Cracks in Memory (2009) Caterina Davinio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piSCYjWUams&feature=player_embedded

Classic Poems Turn Lyrical on Natalie Merchant’s New Album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJjhyuGP4E&feature=player_embedded

Free Verse-Beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQER9WTXMQ&feature=player_embedded

The Final Word – Inspirational Kinetic Typography Animation 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4pdl3LupgM&feature=player_embedded

Her Waiting Face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwjUfPhGvy0&feature=player_embedded

Know Where to Go Crazy – A Digital Poem by M. D. Friedman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsbIQYB0D8&feature=player_embedded

Trifles – Poetry, Siri Grunthaler-Alme / Photography, Tanja-Tatjana Krklješa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKCWhgH5iU&feature=player_embedded

Digital Poetry

Women in Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEc4YWICeXk&feature=player_embedded

 

Tiny Furniture: SXSW 2010 Accepted Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxWxgrwI8uI&feature=player_embedded

Illiterate Magazine

http://www.illiteratemagazine.com/blog

Trystan Photography

http://www.trystanphotography.net/

Lets Love Art

http://letsloveart.com/

Witness This

http://witness-this.com/

New York Times Art Beat (Books)

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/category/books/

Art

This is very interactive website and blog that allows people to upload their art and literature and give people feedback on what they have posted on this website. Also several submissions are chosen to be published in the Illiterate Magazine and gallery. http://www.illiteratemagazine.com/blog

Torch Literary Arts

http://www.torchliteraryarts.org/

Salon

http://www.salon.com/

New York Magazine

http://nymag.com/

Poetry International

http://media.poetryinternational.org/bop/

Poetry Foundation

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/

The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/book-beast/?cid=rss:topic:book-beast

Literature/Informative

This is an example from a website that has many different links to digital works of literature and poetry. I specifically put Shadows Never Sleep in the category of literature and informative because it seemed more fitting, because this example seems more like literature and different than what can be found on YouTube.

http://media.poetryinternational.org/bop/indexx.html

 Shadows Never Sleep by Aya Karpinska

Joanna Aislinn

Carleen Brice

Ann Charles

Tanya Anne Crosby

Jessica Park

Nicholas Kasunic

Authors Found on Twitter through profile

http://bookmavenmedia.com/blog/

http://thebookspy.blogspot.com/

http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com

 http://solittletimeforbooks.blogspot.com

http://www.heavenhellandpurgatory-bookreviews.com/

http://www.blogs.com/topten/10-best-literature-blogs/

Authors, Books and Blogs

Cupcake Mafia

http://www.mycupcakemafia.com/

Cook The Books Club

http://cookthebooksclub.wordpress.com/

Village Voice

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2011/02/ten_best_draft.php?page=2

Cooking and Food Blogs

Print culture has definitely changed in order to appeal and accommodate the ever expending realm of digital culture. Together both print and digital literature can be deemed as canonical because in many cases both print and digital literature intertwine in one way or another. As far as digital culture by itself being a canon that has yet to come, but I believe it will be seen as one in the future.

Digital Literature as a Canon