Interview: Márcio Seligmann-Silva

Abstract

The interview was given via videoconference on 21 September 2020, amid an international pandemic scenario of covid-19. The organizers, Sabine Gorovitz and Alice Maria Araújo Ferreira, of the special issue Translation as resistance and subversion invited Márcio Seligmann-Silva to talk about the history and philosophy of translation from the ethical and political issues involved in the translation relationship. The conversation, very pleasant and inspiring, goes through the trajectory of the researcher and his readings of Walter Benjamin and German romanticism; it discusses a reflexive experience of translation bringing translators such as Haroldo de Campos, Vilém Flusser, Rubens Torres Filho; finally, it proposes to think of a decolonial translation (resistant and subversive) based on the concept of desoutrization, of the artist and curator Bonaventura Ndikung, to discuss the ethical relationship between subjects.