Matt Valler, PhD

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The alchemy of apocalypse: transmutation and the quest for survival Abstract. This article explores the unexpected intersections of an alchemical imaginary with the religious dynamics of Extinction Rebellion. Drawing on the

Very pleased to share my latest journal article, in Literature & Theology, exploring XR as a religious movement alongside a re-evaluation of alchemy as way of thinking New Materialist religion. Many years in the writing. DM me if you don’t have access. academic.oup.com/litthe/artic...

Expanding Approaches to Bible Translation- Wipf and Stock Publishers The assertion in this book, included within the BPC series, is that translation is as fundamental to biblical material as performance--both in its history as...

Super-pleased to have a chapter in this new book on Bible Translation. There is a WILD chasm between Translation Studies and Bible Translation, despite the Bible being the world’s most translated text! Lots of historic reasons, but time to bridge the gap! wipfandstock.com/978166677128...

The Epistran Project - Online Lecture Series This online lecture series, launched in November 2024, represents cutting-edge knowledge in the various areas covered by the EPISTRAN project. Lectures are given by members and consultants of the EPIS...

The EPISTRAN project is one of the most interesting things in #translationstudies at the moment. Am honoured to be invited to launch Strand F, on Epistemic Emergence, alongside Prof Kobus Marais. Tomorrow 5pm UTC. Register here: www.epistran.org/online-lectu...

Thanks Neil, I’ll take a look at that

This is great, Neil. Trying to make sure I've understood it well. When you say that translation can be thought as both "articulation" and "Articulation", are you saying that translation is inherent in the pre-existing relationship of things, as well as their reshaping through language?

This is worth your time! Impressive article on Heidegger and translation.

Translating with Heidegger: worldliness, disclosure and disruption There is major interest in contemporary translation studies in relational approaches inspired by thinkers including Latour, Bourdieu, Derrida and Gadamer. These thinkers were heavily influenced by ...

My latest paper is now out!

I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations, Tian!

Reassembling the ruins: revisiting Latour’s concept of translation in Modernity’s growing aftermath Bruno Latour’s concept of translation provides ways to both extend the ‘material turn’ in translation studies and conceptualise translation as process. This concept cannot be understood apart from ...

Taken aback to see that my article on Latour and translation, with Piotr Blumczynski for The Translator, is topping the charts for the journal’s most-read this year. Really proud of this work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yes please add me - thanks for organising this!