What use are translators in a globalised post-modern Babel Tower?
Leonardo La Malfa
Broschiertes Buch

What use are translators in a globalised post-modern Babel Tower?

On translation, mediation, and some other lies

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Translation can be used for bad or good purposes, to impose or fight capitalism, to share or deny knowledge. Yet, this book will demonstrate the impossibility of translation, its lies, its enslavement to the system, and its active role in the subjugation of a global subaltern class. This book acknowledges the impossibility of the translator s task, and concludes with an exhortation to give up and abolish the practice of translation: let us call this exhortation the No-Translation Proposal. We may try to make this Babel Tower a more comfortable home, where we can understand each other without l...