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

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.

“Matt Valler is one of the most exciting and adventurous thinkers in contemporary Translation Studies.  His work is a unique blend of theoretical rigour, contextual awareness and ethical sensitivity. A New Materialist theory of translation offers a whole new way of looking at translation and place by opening up a broad range of disciplines to the insights of translation perspectives.”

 - Professor Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin 

"Time and space, what we are doing with and in them, has become the driving issue of our moment. In its engagement with the question of what human and non-human life on the planet is becoming, this book is both telling and timely, eschewing the sort of specious orderliness that invalidates so much academic writing on the subject. Joyce’s famous questioning of the shifting coordinates of our lives – ‘Where are we at all? And whenabouts in the name of space?’ – echoes throughout in thought and spirit, and is extended by Valler into a multi-layered compass rose of a discussion that draws upon a huge range of sources. Anxious, engaged, warmly human, particularly in its commitment to the survival of the non-human, this is an extraordinary book. Read it."

 - Professor David Johnston, Queen's University Belfast