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The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, semiotics and translation studies
Edited by Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts and Maud Gonne
[Benjamins Translation Library 164] 2024
► pp. 59–83

Chapter 3
Taking the measure of the Mississippi

Translation, new materialism, and the negotiation of boundaries

| Queen’s University Belfast
Article outline
  • The language of complexity
  • The conundrum of anthropocentrism in the anthropocene
  • Geologics and the inhuman
  • Material discursivity and agential realism
  • The productive apparatus
  • The agential cut
  • Latour de force
  • “Taking the measure of”
  • Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 3 May 2024
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