Open AccessGetting from Here to There
Author(s) -
David Solway
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transcultural
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1920-0323
DOI - 10.21992/t9rh08
Subject(s) - transcendence (philosophy) , task (project management) , translation (biology) , expression (computer science) , psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , economics , management , biology , messenger rna , gene , programming language , biochemistry
The task of translation is obviously impossible. But since we are the kind of creature that is programmed to succeed at failure, we are constantly propelled forward toward transcendence of limitation. Translation is the paradigm of all human striving, doomed to failure yet married to desire, and is therefore the inescapable expression of being human.