Im/materialities: translation technologies & the (dis)enchantment of diasporic life-worlds
This article explores the interaction between materiality and ideality through the work of a translation software technology routinely used in Sikh diaspora communities. The software Sikhi-to-the-Max weaves together subjectivity, religion and linguistic formations making it indispensable for mediati...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 413-438 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
SikhiToTheMax
/ Sikhism
/ Diaspora (social sciences) (Religion)
/ Religious literature
/ Translation
/ Religion
/ Conception
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| Further subjects: | B
technologies
B English B Deleuze B Consciousness B Diaspora (social sciences) B Sikhism B Translatology B Imperialism |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | This article explores the interaction between materiality and ideality through the work of a translation software technology routinely used in Sikh diaspora communities. The software Sikhi-to-the-Max weaves together subjectivity, religion and linguistic formations making it indispensable for mediating a communicational ecosystem of diasporic life-worlds by enabling translation of a premodern scriptural language between different generations of Sikhs. Sikhi-to-the-Max juxtaposes premodern and modern language formations, in addition to mediating between sonic/affective experiences of music, scriptural text and commentary. Following Deleuze I argue for a new 'image' of translation pertinent to the 'religious' diasporic lifeworld, an 'image' inspired partly by the univocal model of language and world-making embedded in the operating logic of Sikh scripture (gurbani). By contextualizing the communicational models of Sikhi-to-the-Max within the cultural history of imperial translation, this new 'image' of translation pushes us to think harder about how the material and the conceptual interact. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1635331 |