Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: One way to live and die well as mortal critters in the Chthulucene is to join forces to reconstitute refuges, to make possible partial and robust biological-culturalpolitical-technological recuperation and recomposition, which must include mourning irreversible losses.(Haraway, 2016, p. 101).This is what Donna J. Haraway argues in her Staying with the Trouble (2016), seeking a revaluation of the 'kinship' between human and non-human entities.With the emergence of posthumanism, the watertight compartmentalisation between human beings and non-human entities has gradually become more porous.Critics like Donna Haraway and Annemarie Mol have discussed the demarginalisation of non-human entities which include both natural species and machines, and suggested a gradual shift from 'anthropocentrism' to 'chthulucentism' in a posthuman network.The 'shift' necessitates a reconfiguration of existing epistemological premises of such academic disciplines as Animal Studies, Science and Technology Studies.This is even more true in the case of Translation Studies.Especially, the development of Translation Studies as a discipline, in the age of 'Information Economy', has witnessed a 'technological turn' within itself, initiating a change in the traditional method of translation praxis.Even, none can deny that the 'technological turn' in translation praxis has reached its pinnacle due to the invention of AI-based translation models.Translation, therefore, is no longer a mere human activity, but rather the product of human-machine interaction.It is also noteworthy how the digitised form translation, simultaneously, has given rise to newer
Source: Translation Today
Author: Suklal Saren
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408005045