Description: On what basis can we establish an alternative to the unifying of cultures brought about by economic globalization? When ideas, like objects and words, can be translated and marketed everywhere, what forms of critique are available? Straddling the fields of political philosophy, comparative literature, animal studies, global studies, and political economy, Untranslating Machines proposes to this end a weakened, defective concept of “untranslatability.” The analytic frame of Jacques Lezra’s argument is rooted in Marx, Derrida and Wittgenstein. He moves historically from the moment when “translation” becomes firmly wed to mercantilism and to the consolidation of proto-national state forms, in European early modernity; to the current moment, in which the flow of information, commodities and value-creation protocols among international markets produces the regulative fantasy of a global, coherent market of markets. In a world in which translation and translatability have become a means and a model for the consolidation of a global cultural system, this book proposes an understanding of untranslatability that serves to limit the articulation between a globalized capitalist value-system and the figure and techniques of translation.
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Binding: Paperback
Book Title: Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Though
Number of Pages: 222 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Untranslating Machines : a Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Subject: Comparative Literature, Globalization, Political, Translating & Interpreting
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 12.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jacques Lezra
Item Length: 8.7 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series: New Critical Humanities Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
