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Book review: unexceptional politics: on obstruction, impasse, and the impolitic by Emily Apter
Get PDFIn Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic, Emily Apter investigates and offers a vocabulary for 'the microphenomenology of political life' - ways of thinking the political in its ‘messier everyday guises’ that have hitherto seemed to elude conceptual grasp and intelligibility in political theory. This is an impressive mapping that brings together different phenomena and writings, resisting an easy analysis but responding poetically and urgently to the pressures of the present, recommends Lilly Markaki
Emily Apter, Zones de traduction. Pour une nouvelle littérature comparée, traducción de Hélène Quinion.
Get PDFEmily Apter, Zones de traduction. Pour une nouvelle littérature comparée, traducción de Hélène Quinio
Parution - Emily Apter , "Zones de traduction. Pour une nouvelle littérature comparée"
No full textEmily Apter Zones de traduction Pour une nouvelle littérature comparée Fayard 2015 Présentation de l'éditeur Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Hélène Quiniou À l’heure où les échanges culturels sont véhiculés par un anglais standardisé, même si d’autres langues de portée mondiale commencent à modifier l’équilibre des forces dans la production de la culture, Emily Apter mène une réflexion sur les zones de traduction. Traduire, est-ce perpétuer ou effacer la mémoire culturelle ? Tout est-..
Parution - Emily Apter , "Zones de traduction. Pour une nouvelle littérature comparée"
No full textEmily Apter Zones de traduction Pour une nouvelle littérature comparée Fayard 2015 Présentation de l'éditeur Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Hélène Quiniou À l’heure où les échanges culturels sont véhiculés par un anglais standardisé, même si d’autres langues de portée mondiale commencent à modifier l’équilibre des forces dans la production de la culture, Emily Apter mène une réflexion sur les zones de traduction. Traduire, est-ce perpétuer ou effacer la mémoire culturelle ? Tout est-..
Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish. Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France
No full textNesci Catherine. Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish. Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France. In: Romantisme, 1994, n°85. Pouvoirs, puissances : qu'en pensents les femmes? pp. 104-105
INTERVIEW WITH PROF. DR. EMILY APTER
Get PDFMy work for some years has centered on the politics of translation, on
“theorizing in untranslatables” (or what it means to “philosophize
in translation” as the French philosopher and translator Barbara
Cassin put it). Cassin and I collaborated on the English edition (APTER;
CASSIN, 2014) of the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, a
kind of new history of philosophy told from translation’s point of view. There
is no consensus on what an Untranslatable might be: (a mistranslation? A
non-translation? A constant re-translation? A word that runs interference?
A border zone/warzone in the world of language wars?), but such questions
lent impetus to several books: The Translation Zone: A New Comparative
Literature (APTER, 2005), Against World Literature: On the Politics of
Untranslatability (APTER, 2013), Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction,
Impasse and the Impolitic (APTER, 2018) and most recently What is Just
Translation?, a project on language inequality, social harming, reparative
translation, and the limits of translation as medium and praxis. For over
twenty years I have edited the Translation/Transnation series at Princeton
University Press, and worked in an editorial capacity with the journals
October, Political Concepts, Diacritics, Public Culture, Comparative Literature and PMLA. In addition to translation studies, my teaching at NYU covers comparative method (the history and theory of comparative literature as a discipline), continental philosophy, aesthetics across media, psychoanalysis, sexual politics, and literature (19th century to contemporary fiction and poetics).
I served two terms (2015-2022) as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU and will soon begin a term as Chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. In the past two years I worked closely with faculty in the School of Liberal Studies as well as colleagues in national language departments to develop a Translation Studies Undergraduate Minor and was involved in developing the CALAMEGS Certificate (Comparative Approaches to Literatures of Africa, the Middle East and the Global South) in the Ph.D. program at NYU. In 2017-18 I served as President of the American Comparative Literature Association. In 2019, I was the Daimler Fellow at the American
Academy in Berlin, in 2014 a Fellow at the Council of the Humanities Fellow at Princeton, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004
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Tradurre Emily Apter
No full textThis chapter discusses the translation strategies adopted by the author in translating one of Emily Apter's key texts (the chapter 'Sex and Gender' from Apter's Against Wolrd Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability, London: Verso, 2013). The discussion frames the author's approach within the 'translator's visibility' framework (Lawrence Venuti) and situates some of the translating strategies within the discourse on untranslatability developed by Apter and others
Słownik terminów nieprzetłumaczalnych – przetłumaczony. Dictionary of Untranslatables. A Philosophical Lexicon, red. Barbara Cassin, tłum. z francuskiego Steven Rendall, Christian Hubert, Jeffrey Mehlman, Nathanael Stein, Michael Syrotinski; redakcja tłumaczenia Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra i Michael Wood, Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014, s.
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Blurring the Event:Micropolitics and Ecosophy, May '68 to the ZAD
No full textThe ‘event’ has been marked as exceptional and momentous in postwar philosophy and theory. The recent spate of exhibitions, books, and conferences commemorating May ’68 from the hindsight of fifty years has reiterated that exceptionalism; as period nostalgia, political flashpoint, revolutionary reboot… ‘Eventalness’ – distinguished by singularity, rupture, the break, the interval, the void, the moment (Patrice Maniglier’s identification of ’68 with ‘le moment philosophique’) – coalesces into a grand aporia of the Political. What does it mean to take exception to this exceptionalism of the Political (a politics worthy of the name)? Félix Guattari’s writings on micropolitics and ecosophy answer this on the oblique by scoring sensate environments: intensities of power and desire; the viscosity of social atmospherics, psychic pulsations, and drives. These sensible materialities blur the sharp outlines of epic turning points that structure theories of the Political, blurring the perception of what politics is or where it happens, opening up other ways of naming the ‘matter’ of politics (a central concern of Apter’s book Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic, Verso 2018). ‘Micropolitics’, adduced as a fluid concept with reference to Guattari’s molecular ‘micropolitics of desire’; Foucault’s cellular ‘microphysics of power’; Antonio E. Casilli’s ‘microlabour’ (microtravail, a term applied to digital labour, work outsourced to machinic taskers like Amazon Mechanical Turk or Clickworker); and Grégoire Chamayou’s ‘micropolitics of privatization’ (a tactic by which the Thatcherite state put the micropolitics of ungovernability to neoliberal ends), grows into other glossaries: Sara Ahmed’s ‘atmospheric walls’ of social inclusion and exclusion; Achille Mbembe’s force-fields of ‘nanoracism’; Kris Manjapra’s ‘colonial entanglements’, which focus on political alignments sidelined in grand narratives of imperial domination; or the late Hayden White’s historical construct of ‘the practical past’ which refers to tactics of living, archived memories, affects, and dreams. Whether it is in small group associations that reorganize socioeconomic relations in the context of labour, education, and care, or the practice of listening, questioning, and struggling to find a voice, (a crucial narrative of feminist consciousness-raising), or in political technologies of destratification that are deployed both right and left, energies are recovered. They emanate from practical, ordinary acts as well as the stuff of decomposition, impasse, obstacle courses of junk and detritus (the ZAD, la zone à défendre at Notre-Dame des Landes). The rich poesis of ecosophy, offering up a micropolitics of densified milieu, environmental déclenchements, and resistant jardinage, lies in the fallows of post-’68; becoming perceptible in the blurred retrospect on ‘the event’ of ’68. Emily Apter is Julius Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University and a Remarque-Ecole Normale Supérieure Visiting Professor; she has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; UC Davis; Cornell University; and Williams College. Apter is editor of the book series ‘Translation/Transnation’ from Princeton University Press and serves on several editorial boards. Her books include Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic (2018), Against World Literature: On The Politics of Untranslatability (2013), and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006)
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