https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691138701/dictionary-of-untranslatables?srsltid=AfmBOophKSe8XergbxhsYJjPbaiOD5n5SLMeuxeK-t_-83lf5qzhm-q- hopscotching my way through this compendium of words and concepts worthy of reflection #untranslatable #translation #criticalthinking
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🌚 I've been translating an article that talks about the use of #colour and successive layers of colour in painting. And I started thinking about unseen colours, the limits of colour, impossible colours, the language of colour and so on. I intend to read more on this subject, and am keen to talk about it, but for now this is a wikimedia image of #vantablack
A world of online hate and lies: Mapping our investigations into social media platforms’ failure to tackle hate and disinformation: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/a-world-of-online-hate-and-lies-social-media-platforms-hate-and-disinformation/
“An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.”
Hito Steyerl in NLR 140/141, March–June 2023
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
Hito Steyerl, Mean Images, NLR 140/141, March–June 2023
An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.