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Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought

Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought

Lezra, Jacques

Hardcover

Series: New Critical Humanities

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1786605082
ISBN13: 9781786605085
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 15 2017
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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