1st Edition

A New Materialist Theory of Translation Negotiating More-than-Human Co-Existence

By Matt Valler Copyright 2027
216 Pages
by Routledge

This book proposes a New Materialist theory of translation, redefining translation as a negotiation of agency to address the urgent challenges of co-existence in the Anthropocene. In the face of increased migration, runaway climate change, and accelerating AI it takes an innovative transdisciplinary approach, moving beyond language and semiotics to explore relations of co-existence among... Read more

Introduction, 1. Changing places: identity, space, and translationality, 2. Latour and translation: indeterminate encounters in Modernity's ruins, 3. Taking the measure: a New Materialist theory of translation, 4. Translation and place: story-time after The End of the World, 5. Taking the measure of High Cross, 6. Terms of settlement: negotiating more-than-human co-existence, Index

Biography

Matt Valler holds a PhD in translation studies from Queen’s University Belfast. He is an independent scholar working at the intersection of translation studies, human geography, and philosophy and curates the Complex Cornwall seminar series at the University of Exeter. Matt is the founder of Labyrinth, a place-based narrative change project to re-imagine co-existence in the Anthropocene, and has designed interactive storytelling experiences in London, Melbourne, New York, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.