Announcing the launch of Amodern 8: Translation–Machination
An issue guest-edited by Christine Mitchell and Rita Raley
Amodern 8: Translation–Machination
Editorial
Christine Mitchell and Rita Raley
“LOVE.ABZ and the Task of the Machine Translator: An Interview with Otso Huopaniemi”
Rita Raley
“The Translation of Process”
John Cayley
“Whether Something Works: Finding the Human in the Margins of Machine Translation”
Christine Mitchell
“Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones”
Tiffany Chan, Mara Mills, Jentery Sayers
“Crypto-Monolingualism: Machine Translation and the Poetics of Automation”
Avery Slater
“The Cryptological Origins of Machine Translation: From al-Kindi to Weaver”
Quinn DuPont
“Translating the Future: Transpilers and the New Temporalities of Programming in JavaScript”
Andrew Pilsch
“The Complexity of Poetic Pattern: Recreating Early Work in Machine Translation”
Nick Montfort
“Translate and Describe: Archive-Based Image Description as an Intermedia Translation Technique”
Jane Birkin
“Translation and Optical Media: Spirit-Channeling in Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”
Karin Littau
“Translational Granularity”
Joe Milutis
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