Friday, December 9, 2011
To quote the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffmann, [digital humanists] begin with the powerful question, “what is it that’s going on?” One might say that it is the duty, indeed the social mandate of the humanities, to ask this question comprehensively of the digital age. Who else will pry into what’s happening to us all, find out what we can do about it, what we can do with ourselves because of it? Willard McCarty, responding to Matthew Reisz 
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August in London

 Cross's London Guide, originally published in 1837

[The second edition of Cross’s London Guide, originally published in 1837. 

 Copyright © British Library Board. Via Europeana.]

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The past two days I published two editorial pieces on the London/UK riots and a related instalment of my monthly column on London. It goes without saying they’re written from the perspective of a Mexican who lives in London.

They’re an attempt at making sense of the events, their possible causes and consequences, and at trying to offer an outsider-insider’s personal view for my readers in Mexico and Spanish-speaking countries, in their own language.