Wednesday, 27 January 2016

The Task of the Translator

In the same way a translation, instead of imitating the sense of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's way of meaning, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings Volume 1, 1913-1926, page 260

Saturday, 23 January 2016

Bodies Without Organs

An assignment from my Critical Theory class in which we had to learn a passage from How Do you Make a Body without Organs by F. Guattari and G. Deleuze.




The Edge of the World

"Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without power to make c...