This essay explores different dimensions of the relation between Translation and the Archive—considered here as related concepts and forms of knowledge, as well as interconnected material practices, technologies, and traditions—and how this relation can be conceptualized as central to the production of transnational knowledge, both from a historical and contemporary perspective. Through a critical examination of the scholarly work of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, as well as of the creative work of Valeria Luiselli and Ocean Vuong, among other scholars and creative writers, the essay analyzes how the comparative analysis of Translation and the Archive can open up a series of important questions regarding the production, curation, and circulation of knowledge. Moreover, the article highlights how a critical examination of their relation and interconnection can generatively expand our understanding of both Translation and the Archive as related critical and material practices.
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This essay addresses both the productive influence of translation in a tradition of thought, and the gaps and limits that result from the absence of translation. The essay first challenges Franco Moretti’s proposal of “distant reading” and his call to rely on national critics, through a discussion of the limits of the criticism actually available in translation that might sustain such a methodology. This limit is illustrated through the belated translation of two major books of Latin American literary criticism, by Ángel Rama and Antonio Cornejo Polar. The second section discusses the translation of German philosophical and critical works in midcentury Mexico, to illustrate how the construction of an infrastructure of philosophy translation empowered a new generation of thinkers, the Mexican existentialists. The essay concludes with a call for reciprocity in the translation of criticism.
{"title":"A Critique of Provincial Reason: Situated Cosmopolitanisms and the Infrastructures of Theoretical Translation","authors":"Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado","doi":"10.1086/727782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727782","url":null,"abstract":"This essay addresses both the productive influence of translation in a tradition of thought, and the gaps and limits that result from the absence of translation. The essay first challenges Franco Moretti’s proposal of “distant reading” and his call to rely on national critics, through a discussion of the limits of the criticism actually available in translation that might sustain such a methodology. This limit is illustrated through the belated translation of two major books of Latin American literary criticism, by Ángel Rama and Antonio Cornejo Polar. The second section discusses the translation of German philosophical and critical works in midcentury Mexico, to illustrate how the construction of an infrastructure of philosophy translation empowered a new generation of thinkers, the Mexican existentialists. The essay concludes with a call for reciprocity in the translation of criticism.","PeriodicalId":187662,"journal":{"name":"KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge","volume":"102 1","pages":"185 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A reading of Qurratulain Hyder’s engagement with neoclassicism, colonial, and nationalist archaeology, in her two Urdu novels Akhir-i-Shab ke Humsafar and Ag ka Darya, which she substantially rewrote in her own English translations, Fireflies in the Mist and River of Fire, framed through a discussion of translation and the term she uses to describe River of Fire, “transcreation.”
通过讨论翻译和她用来描述《火之河》的术语 "转译"，解读 Qurratulain Hyder 在其两部乌尔都语小说《Akhir-i-Shab ke Humsafar》和《Ag ka Darya》中对新古典主义、殖民主义和民族主义考古学的参与。
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{"title":"Chomsky versus Foucault, and the Problem of Knowledge in Translation","authors":"Sean Cotter","doi":"10.1086/727781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187662,"journal":{"name":"KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge","volume":"11 1","pages":"171 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay explores several research and writing aspects of translating scholarship, particularly those often disparaged as “explicitation.” It employs examples drawn from contemporary translation practice to argue that, in the context of scholarly translation, explicitation becomes an enabling and clarifying activity that shows how words and expressions mean through the specific contexts in which they appear. The essay approaches translation as a distinctive form of writing, defining it as a practice in the Aristotelian sense, arguing that “it is possible to think like a translator,” and proposing how such thinking differs from that of practitioners in other fields.
{"title":"When Dragons Show Themselves: Research, Constructing Knowledge, and the Practice of Translation","authors":"Russell Scott Valentino","doi":"10.1086/727762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727762","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores several research and writing aspects of translating scholarship, particularly those often disparaged as “explicitation.” It employs examples drawn from contemporary translation practice to argue that, in the context of scholarly translation, explicitation becomes an enabling and clarifying activity that shows how words and expressions mean through the specific contexts in which they appear. The essay approaches translation as a distinctive form of writing, defining it as a practice in the Aristotelian sense, arguing that “it is possible to think like a translator,” and proposing how such thinking differs from that of practitioners in other fields.","PeriodicalId":187662,"journal":{"name":"KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge","volume":"101 1","pages":"293 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long overshadowed by literary translation, on the one hand, and scientific/technical translation, on the other, academic translation is nonetheless crucial to the transnational circulation of texts and concepts in fields across the Humanities and Social Sciences. This article begins by offering an overview of attempts to theorize academic translation, beginning with Oleksandr Finkel’s addition of “non-literary prose” to his translation typology of 1929. The article then addresses the specific challenges that distinguish academic translation from the translation of literary and scientific/technical texts, namely, the selection of one original from several editions; the management of terminology, which is often more figurative and contested than in the hard sciences; and citational practices, which may involve texts in a variety of languages and in translation.
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The article examines the ambiguous relationship between the handwritten signature and privacy. Read as an expression of individuality, the signature serves as a means of (public) representation and documentation; at the same time, its appearance is said to be connected to a person’s character and their specific manners that are developed and acted upon most freely in private. Based on the examples of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s autograph collection and Thomas Mann’s designs for the signatures of two characters from his novel Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, this article explores inauthentic signatures—signatures displaying a name other than the signatory’s—as a practice of performing individuality through writing. It concludes that the relationship between individuality and handwriting is not dependent on notions of authenticity, but instead is established through diverse practices involving (among others) posing and imitation. Thus, privacy not only provides a space for the enactment of “authentic” self-expression, but also for the exploration of personality through playful and imaginative practices.
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e tend to associate knowledge with the mind, the Wintellect, or the brain, butmuchofwhatwe come to know starts with concrete engagements with the world. Experimentation, rehearsal, repetition, habit formation—all of these are intrinsic to getting to know something, and getting to know it well. Because it often involves trial and error, knowledge development is done more comfortably in private, where the knowledge-maker remains unobserved while learning or developing something new. Even when practices of knowledge-making achieve a stage where they require social engagement, there might still be a concern for maintaining a certain level of privacy. Groups create strategies to confine the spreading of their techniques. Masters and apprentices share their knowledge under strict rules of the trade. Cooks conceal key ingredients from the tasters of their delicacies, and basically every grandparent is the
{"title":"Between Concealment and Disclosure: Approaches to the History of Privacy in Knowledge-Making","authors":"N. Perez, Natacha Klein Käfer","doi":"10.1086/724971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724971","url":null,"abstract":"e tend to associate knowledge with the mind, the Wintellect, or the brain, butmuchofwhatwe come to know starts with concrete engagements with the world. Experimentation, rehearsal, repetition, habit formation—all of these are intrinsic to getting to know something, and getting to know it well. Because it often involves trial and error, knowledge development is done more comfortably in private, where the knowledge-maker remains unobserved while learning or developing something new. Even when practices of knowledge-making achieve a stage where they require social engagement, there might still be a concern for maintaining a certain level of privacy. Groups create strategies to confine the spreading of their techniques. Masters and apprentices share their knowledge under strict rules of the trade. Cooks conceal key ingredients from the tasters of their delicacies, and basically every grandparent is the","PeriodicalId":187662,"journal":{"name":"KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128028570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1788, the new king of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II published an edict on religion under the auspices of his minister of state, Johann Christoph Woellner. The edict is very often interpreted as the renunciation of the tolerant religious policy of the late Friedrich II, who is generally regarded by historians as a promoter of tolerance and enlightenment. In contrast, I argue that the edict needs to be seen in the context of theological arguments, formulated among others by theologians who understood themselves as enlightened, such as Johann Salomo Semler. They distinguish between a public religion bound to certain dogmas and a private religion, independent from institutionalized religion and leading to increasing religious insight. This distinction is implicitly taken as a basis for Woellner’s edict, where religious attitudes differing from the “mainstream” are permitted, but they are to be kept in the private sphere. To interpret the edict rather in context of so-called enlightenment theology then as part of the counter-enlightenment also challenges our interpretation of the enlightenment as epoch of tolerance and religious freedom.
{"title":"How Private Is Religion? Theological Debates on Private and Public Religion as a Background for Woellner’s Edict on Religion in Late Eighteenth-Century Prussia","authors":"Thea Sumalvico","doi":"10.1086/724777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724777","url":null,"abstract":"In 1788, the new king of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II published an edict on religion under the auspices of his minister of state, Johann Christoph Woellner. The edict is very often interpreted as the renunciation of the tolerant religious policy of the late Friedrich II, who is generally regarded by historians as a promoter of tolerance and enlightenment. In contrast, I argue that the edict needs to be seen in the context of theological arguments, formulated among others by theologians who understood themselves as enlightened, such as Johann Salomo Semler. They distinguish between a public religion bound to certain dogmas and a private religion, independent from institutionalized religion and leading to increasing religious insight. This distinction is implicitly taken as a basis for Woellner’s edict, where religious attitudes differing from the “mainstream” are permitted, but they are to be kept in the private sphere. To interpret the edict rather in context of so-called enlightenment theology then as part of the counter-enlightenment also challenges our interpretation of the enlightenment as epoch of tolerance and religious freedom.","PeriodicalId":187662,"journal":{"name":"KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128590197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utopianism has had a contradictory relationship with privacy since Thomas More envisioned a society without privacy and private property in Utopia (1516). Paradoxically, utopia is a private place; its isolation protects it from outside corruption. This contradiction invites an investigation of early modern conceptions of privacy in utopian literature. Given utopias’ aspiration to social harmony, what might it suggest about ideas to resolve the tensions involved in social negotiations over the boundaries of private spaces, and which individuals and knowledge should be allowed entry or be excluded? This article explores this question in two early modern utopias, The History of the Sevarambians by Denis Vairasse (1675–79) and Description of the Mighty Kingdom of Krinke Kesmes by Hendrik Smeeks (1708). I examine the meaning of privacy in these utopias by drawing on Philipp Sarasin’s approach to the history of knowledge. I explore how utopian social knowledge is constructed, how it circulated, and the material conditions of its framing in printed texts. I conclude that Vairasse and Smeeks understood the creation of knowledge from a Baconian perspective as requiring a filtered privacy that must be negotiated, defined, and protected to maintain social harmony.
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