What is evolutionary translation?
Tyler Shane Tesolin, Giacomo
Evolutionary translation is a bold new perspective that will recalibrate translation studies by disentangling the processes of textual survival and archival loss mediated through multimodal interpretation.
Our projects innovatively combine and extend four concepts:
Balkin’s ‘culture meme’
Elements of culture shared and passed on through contact and exchange, evolving the systems that host them.
Balkin, Jack M. 1998. Cultural software: A theory of ideology. Yale University Press.
Chesterman’s ‘translation meme’
The elements an original and a translation actually share.
Chesterman, Andrew. 1997 rev 2016. Memes of Translation. The spread of ideas in translation. John Benjamins.
Shep’s ‘gene-culture transmission’
How the cultural genetics of a text are identified and transmitted.
Shep, Sydney. 2021. Transoceanic Superorganisms: A big data approach to nineteenth-century digitised newspapers. Marsden full proposal.
Terrinoni’s ‘quantum interpretation’
A highly subjective, generative approach to interpreting content and data.
Terrinoni, Enrico. 2023. A Quantum Theory of Interpretation and the Dark Matter of the Literary; or, Reading ‘open texts’ as a Probabilistic Event. Work-in-progress.
Bibliography
Balkin, Jack M. 1998. Cultural software: A theory of ideology. Yale University Press.
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca. 2001. Genes, Peoples and Languages. Translated M. Seielstad. Penguin.
Chesterman, Andrew. 1997 rev 2016. Memes of Translation. The spread of ideas in translation. John Benjamins.
Lukacs-Roesch, Markus, Ramine Tinati, Max van Kleek, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2015. From coincidence to purposeful flow? Properties of transcendental information cascades. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Paris, FR.
Saghafian, Soroush. "Effective Generative AI: The Human-Algorithm Centaur." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-030, October 2023. https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37377176
Searfoss, A.E.R. 2016. The Evolution of Evolutionary Explanations of Culture. How and why can a critical evaluation of costly signalling theory enhance our understanding of cultural practices, PhD, Victoria University of Wellington. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5303
Shep, Sydney. 2021. Transoceanic Superorganisms: A big data approach to nineteenth-century digitised newspapers. Marsden full proposal.
Sonzogni, Marco. 2011. Re-Covered Rose. A case study in book cover design as intersemiotic translation. John Benjamins.
Terrinoni, Enrico. 2023. A Quantum Theory of Interpretation and the Dark Matter of the Literary; or, Reading ‘open texts’ as a Probabilistic Event. Work-in-progress.