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Getting from Here to There

Author(s) -

David Solway

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

transcultural a journal of translation and cultural studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1920-0323

DOI - 10.21992/t9rh08

Subject(s) - transcendence (philosophy) , task (project management) , expression (computer science) , translation (biology) , aesthetics , psychology , cognitive science , communication , epistemology , environmental ethics , computer science , philosophy , engineering , biology , biochemistry , messenger rna , gene , programming language , systems engineering

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.

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