Introduction
MICHAEL SYROTINSKI
The Energy of the Untranslatables: Translation as a Paradigm for
the Human Sciences
BARBARA CASSIN
Lexilalia: On Translating a Dictionary of Untranslatable
Philosophical Terms
EMILY APTER
‘This untranslatability which is not one’
JACQUES LEZRA
The Invention of the Idiom: The Untranslatable Event
MARC CREPON
A Vocabulary and Its Vicissitudes: Notes towards a Memoir
JEFFREY MEHLMAN
Macaronics as What Eludes Translation
HAUN SAUSSY
Guattari, Transversality and the Experimental Semiotics of
Untranslatability
ANDREW GOFFEY
Bodin on Sovereignty: Taking Exception to Translation?
OISIN KEOHANE
Paulhan’s Translations: Philosophy, Literature, History
MICHAEL SYROTINSKI
Colonia and imperium (Box 1, STATO)
ROBERT J. C. YOUNG
‘Humanities’ (or ‘The Unnatural Sciences’) (Box 3, BILDUNG)
MICHAEL WOOD
No Untranslatables! (Box 5, TO TRANSLATE)
JANE TYLUS
‘Planetarity’ (Box 4, WELT)
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK