Naoki Sakai, “Translation and the Figure of the Border,” p.26

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Naoki Sakai, “Translation and the Figure of the Border,” p.26
Translation almost always involves a different language or at least a difference in or of language. But what difference or differentiation is at issue? How does it demand that we broaden our comprehension of translation? From the outset, we have to guard against the static view of translation in which difference is substantialized; we should not yield to the reification of translation that denies translation its potentiality to deterritorialize. Therefore it is important to introduce difference in and of language in such a way that we can comprehend translation not in terms of the communication model of equivalence and exchange but as a form of political labor to create continuity at the elusive point of discontinuity in the social.

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