The object of the majority of translations that are produced in our day and age is the communication of information, be it about computers, cars, infusion pumps, and the like. The object of other translations – and they are in minority now, though they may not always have been – is the circulation of cultural capital. The difference between information and cultural capital, in the sense in which the latter term has been introduced by Pierre Bourdieu, could be succinctly formulated as follows: information is what you need to function on the professional level, whereas cultural capital is what you need to be seen to belong to the ‘right circles’ in the society in which you live.