The Journal of research on the lepidoptera. 2017. Cover detail.

[D]enoscriptions of a CEO’s day also prove Deleuze and Guattari’s claim in Anti-Oedipus that, in capitalism, “there are no longer even any masters, but only slaves commanding other slaves … The bourgeois sets the example … : more utterly enslaved than the lowest of slaves, he is the first servant of the ravenous machine, the beast of the reproduction of capital … ‘I too am a slave’ – these are the new words spoken by the master. ” The good old days of exploitation, where the boss was interested in the worker only to the extent that they produced a commodity which could be sold at a profit, are long gone. Work then meant the annihilation of subjectivity, your reduction to an impersonal machine-part; it was the price that you paid for time away from work. Now, there is no time away from work, and work is not opposed to subjectivity. All time is entrepreneurial time because we are the commodities, so that any time not spent selling ourselves is wasted time.

— Mark Fisher, Suffering With A Smile

Edmond LACHENAL (1855-1948) et Luca MADRASSI (1848-1919) - Premier Baiser

Naum Gabo, 1950s

First, then, the translator must surrender to the text. She must solicit the text to show the limits of its language, because that rhetorical aspect will point at the silence of the absolute fraying of language that the text wards off, in its special manner. Some think this is just an ethereal way of talking about literature or philosophy. But no amount of tough talk can get around the fact that translation is the most intimate act of reading.

Gayatri Spivak, The Politics of Translation

Joris Hoefnagel - Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate LI - c. 1575