Archive of Translation

The Hirak movement in Algeria continues to build momentum, bringing the streets of Algiers to a standstill. In this interview, Nedjib Sidi Moussa, doctor of Political Science at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, discusses the composition of the movement, and highlights its limits and horizon.

"It was important to capture rhythms, cadences, the lilt of a storyteller in the market square."

Benjamin introduces a distinction between “what is meant” by a text and its distinctive “way of meaning it”, a relation of disjunction between what and how.

"To bring an incomprehensible text into the realm of comprehensibility is to kill it."