Author
NEILSON Brett
Brett Neilson is Director of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. He has published in venues such as Variant, Mute, Posse, DeriveApprodi, Vacarme, Subtropen, Conflitti globali, Il Manifesto, Carta, Open, Transversal and Framework.
Bibliography
Watson, I., Allon, F., Nicholl, F. & Neilson, B. (eds) 2002, Borderlands [Special Issue: On What Grounds? Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Indigenous Rights], 1(2).
Neilson, B. 2004, Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle… and Other Tales of Counter-Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Neilson, B. & Rossiter, R. (guest eds) 2005, Fibreculture Journal [Special Issue: Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour], 5.
Goddard, M. & Neilson, B. (guest eds) 2005, Cultural Studies Review [Special Issue: Italian Effects], 11(2).
Anderson, K., Dobson, R., Allon, F. & Neilson, B. (eds) 2006, After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings of the ‘Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation’ Conference, 22-23 November 2005, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.
Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. (guest eds) 2006, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization [Special Issue: Experience, Movement and the Creation of New Political Forms], 6(4).
Edufactory Collective (ed.) 2008, L’universita’ globale: Il nuovo mercato del sapere, Roma, Italia: Manifesto Libri.
Articles
Opening translation
Brett NEILSON
5 November 2009
This article supports and contributes to the project of open translation by asking how practitioners represent their practice. I am interested not only in how open translation is performed but also in the political motivations of its proponents. Drawing on studies that question the proposition that discrete languages exist before the act of translation, I investigate how open translation figures the relation between languages. I also ask if the collective subject constructed through such collaborative translation practices is a political figure adequate to the production of the common.