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...Weaponizing Babel The relationship between translation and empire in the United States is the topic of this chapter. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the history of Americanization, which is to say translation, of English from...

... translation American English Noah Webster Babel war on terror Iraqi interpreters ...

.... translation American English Noah Webster Babel war on terror Iraqi interpreters ...

...Becoming Modern Where China moved from revolutionary intensity to the market, energy dissipation in the West took a different route. The flow of energy in the West is traced from Babel’s desire for a recovery of “the word” through to the desire for material objects and empire promoted...

... a form of violent intensity, Tatlin’s Tower could be said to combine a heavy dose of functionalism with telluric mythology. If the Babel-like exoskeleton of Tatlin’s Tower reveals the intensity of the theological, its internal vault system shows the rationality of science and what Svetlana Boym once...

... Where China moved from revolutionary intensity to the market, energy dissipation in the West took a different route. The flow of energy in the West is traced from Babel’s desire for a recovery of “the word” through to the desire for material objects and empire promoted in the Crystal Palace...

... for local plant names—a position reinforced by his time in the Philippines. For generations, the nomenclatural vernacular necessitated the creation of a global language to bring comprehensibility to the Babel of local names, a characterization used by scientists and historians alike. This chapter focuses...

... in the Philippines. For generations, the nomenclatural vernacular necessitated the creation of a global language to bring comprehensibility to the Babel of local names, a characterization used by scientists and historians alike. This chapter focuses, instead, on a moment when a vernacular exposed the Latin babble...