We decided to use Academic Book Week starting on 9 November 2015 as a perfect opportunity to hold an online discussion under the title 'Modern Languages and the Digital'. We created a blogsite [https://modernlangdigital. wordpress.com/] so that the conversation could be followed throughout the week and left open to anyone to contribute. Then we invited contributors who are engaged in one or all of the following -using digital tools for their research, digital born and online publishing, and/or who research the field of Digital Humanities (DH) -in order to explore how digital technologies are changing the shape of Modern Languages research and publishing. As well as a main title 'Modern Languages and the Digital: The Shape of the Discipline', we posed a series of six questions 1 under the following headings:
The novel Muertos incómodos is subtitled ‘novela a cuatro manos’. It was written in ‘ping‐pong’ style, according to the Web Prologue, by Subcomandante Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II, where each wrote and reacted to the other through alternating chapters. The former is well known for his recourse to the imaginative and cultural tools at his disposal in his communiqués, the latter is one of the most prolific Mexican novelists. In this article, I shall examine the textual encounter of two apparently disparate worlds and show how the city is constructed in this richly layered text.
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