unreliableobject_33

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Found in the Western Cape Region, South Africa. "Translation, as Derrida therefore puts it, is quite unlike buying, selling, swapping – however much it has been conventionally pictured in those terms. It is not a matter of shipping over juicy chunks of meaning from one side of the language barrier to the other …" Maharaj, S. 1994. Perfidious Fidelity: The Untranslatability of the Other. In: Kala Press in association with the Institute of International Visual Arts ed. Global visions: towards a new internationalism in the visual arts. London. 301.