While founded upon a time-honoured science fiction scenario the movie also clearly articulates the sense of global peril which is typical of much of the cultural production of our current times, manifested in fears about ecological catastrophe, terrorist attacks, and the anthropocene, etc. This essay compares the film with the original novella upon which it was based – Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” (1998) – to examine the role translation plays in both, with the aim of placing this in the context of the crisis in the Humanities which has marked universities over the last few years, and can be linked to a more general crisis in liberal values. It is a film which not only features a Professor of Linguistics as its heroine, but the plot of which is organised around the critical global importance of a multi-million dollar translation project. One of the more interesting science fiction movies of recent years, at least to Humanities academics, is Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 alien-invasion movie, Arrival.
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When she arrived at Katmere Academy, mortal Grace's world turned upside down. Danger, romance and excitement await in the unputdownable and addictive New York Times bestselling sequel to Crave. While this may now seem obvious, it was an extremely radical proposition at the time, directly challenging the conventional narrative from art history that a work's meaning was unchangeable and resided within the piece itself, rather than its context or the conditions of its viewing. "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled," he continues, setting the stage for the book's later analysis of how seeing is a subjective act, influenced by the relationship between us and whatever we're looking at. This quote is followed by an explanation that vision inevitably precedes language, because we are constantly in the world, necessarily surrounded by objects before we can ever name them. He also hints towards the notion that looking is a relational act, a point that he will later develop in greater depth. In this, the very first line of the book, Berger already sets forth a radical premise: looking at art is an experience that can't be bound by words, because the act of looking predates the knowledge of language itself. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." Ways of Seeing, p.7 |