TY - JOUR ID - 106325 TI - Translation and Solidarity in the Century with No Future: Prefiguration vs. Aspirational Translation JO - Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies JA - EFL LA - en SN - AU - Baker, Mona AD - Professor Emeritus of Translation Studies, Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 41 EP - 66 KW - time KW - Temporality KW - future KW - activism KW - Prefiguration KW - Aspirational Translation KW - Semiocapitalism DO - 10.22034/efl.2020.106325 N2 - The future and how we envision and anticipate it has been the subject of scholarly attention for some time, especially from political theorists, scholars of human geography, and anthropologists. This article draws on some of this literature, but particularly the work of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, the Italian Marxist theorist and activist, to explore the implications of two activist strategies that have recently received some attention from translation scholars: prefiguration and aspirational translation. It reflects on the different orientations to the future implied in these two strategies and suggests that their relative appeal is impacted by the rise of semiocapitalism in what Berardi refers to as ‘the century with no future’, and by varying experiences of activists located in different regions of the world. The work of translation and how translators orient themselves to the future, it is argued, can play an important role in arresting if not reversing the ongoing erosion of those possibilities still inscribed in the present despite semiocapitalism’s growing control over every area of human life. UR - https://efl.shbu.ac.ir/article_106325.html L1 - https://efl.shbu.ac.ir/article_106325_10cca2e5ef16234149d178c67252d97f.pdf ER -