Blogging, 18th-Century Style

Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style – The Getty Iris.

An 18th-century information society?

It bugs me when people say, “we live in the information society,” as if ours is the first one that ever came into existence. Every society is an information society, according to the technologies of the time.

(Revised and republished April 21st, 2025)

The Mexican Suitcase

Images of War, Finally Unpacked - The New York Times, 2010

Old photograph of soldiers walking.

(Revised and republished April 19th, 2025)