Translation: Politics and ethics
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The problem of translation acquires a new urgency in contemporary times due to the homogenizing ambition of Anglo-American as universal language and the systematic attempt by neoliberal discourse to colonize every socio-economic, administrative and cultural practice through the re-transcription of these practices into the idiom of neoliberalism. The concept of translation-as-colonization opens socio-economic, administrative and cultural practices to a restructuring dictated by a corporate or market logic, resulting in the institution of a monolingualism that abolishes the distinctions and differences that mark these practices with regard to the values they inscribe.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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A note on assemblage
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The concept of assemblage is emerging as one of a series of new concepts that form the theoretical vocabulary for addressing the problem of determination, of process and of stability and instability regarding social phenomena. They derive from developments in the natural sciences and mathematics, and their introduction signals an important shift at the level of theorization and methodology, opening analysis to the recognition of the complexity of cultural and social as well as natural phenomena.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Modernity
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A study presents a number of features that are put forward to characterize modernity as a way of life and a social system, suggesting a dissident genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. It thus problematizes the norms about periodization and the assumptions about the elaboration of a logos that underlie the concept of the modern.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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