Aarthi Vadde | Debabelization: Language, Literature, and Computational Culture

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“Debabelization,” as linguist C.K. Ogden put it in 1931, motivated rich debates about whether technological intervention could make particular languages more efficient agents of cultural exchange. Aarthi Vadde, Associate Professor of English at Duke University, will consider how the competitive and techno-utopian discourse around debabelization intersects with the history of empire and the aesthetics of modernist and postcolonial literature.

Co-sponsored with the Department of English and the Postcolonial Reading Group
 

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