Matt Valler holds a PhD in translation studies from Queen’s University Belfast. He is an independent scholar working at the intersection of translation studies, human geography, and philosophy and curates the Complex Cornwall seminar series at the University of Exeter. Matt is the founder of Labyrinth, a place-based narrative change project to re-imagine co-existence in the Anthropocene, and has designed interactive storytelling experiences in London, Melbourne, New York, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.

“Matt Valler is one of the most exciting and adventurous thinkers in contemporary Translation Studies. His work is a unique blend of theoretical rigour, contextual awareness and ethical sensitivity. A New Materialist theory of translation offers a whole new way of looking at translation and place by opening up a broad range of disciplines to the insights of translation perspectives.”- Professor Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin “With this original monograph, Matt Valler puts his finger on one of the critical spots in translation studies, namely the politics of matter. Translation studies can indeed no longer ignore the materiality on which its embodied existence, its culture and its continued survival is built, but Valler cleverly entangles this materiality with politics, including the power of humans to act on matter. Translation studies scholars need to read this book.”- Professor Kobus Marais, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. "Time and space, what we are doing with and in them, has become the driving issue of our moment. In its engagement with the question of what human and non-human life on the planet is becoming, this book is both telling and timely, eschewing the sort of specious orderliness that invalidates so much academic writing on the subject. Joyce’s famous questioning of the shifting coordinates of our lives – ‘Where are we at all? And whenabouts in the name of space?’ – echoes throughout in thought and spirit, and is extended by Valler into a multi-layered compass rose of a discussion that draws upon a huge range of sources. Anxious, engaged, warmly human, particularly in its commitment to the survival of the non-human, this is an extraordinary book. Read it."- Professor David Johnston, Queen's University Belfast

• Introduction, 1. Changing places: identity, space, and translationality, 2. Indeterminate encounters: translations in Modernity's ruins, 3. Taking the measure: a New Materialist theory of translation, 4. Translation and place: story-time after The End of the World, 5. Taking the measure of High Cross, 6. Terms of settlement: negotiating more-than-human co-existence, Index

Matt Valler holds a PhD in translation studies from Queen’s University Belfast. He is an independent scholar working at the intersection of translation studies, human geography, and philosophy and curates the Complex Cornwall seminar series at the University of Exeter. Matt is the founder of Labyrinth, a place-based narrative change project to re-imagine co-existence in the Anthropocene, and has designed interactive storytelling experiences in London, Melbourne, New York, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.

“Matt Valler is one of the most exciting and adventurous thinkers in contemporary Translation Studies. His work is a unique blend of theoretical rigour, contextual awareness and ethical sensitivity. A New Materialist theory of translation offers a whole new way of looking at translation and place by opening up a broad range of disciplines to the insights of translation perspectives.”- Professor Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin “With this original monograph, Matt Valler puts his finger on one of the critical spots in translation studies, namely the politics of matter. Translation studies can indeed no longer ignore the materiality on which its embodied existence, its culture and its continued survival is built, but Valler cleverly entangles this materiality with politics, including the power of humans to act on matter. Translation studies scholars need to read this book.”- Professor Kobus Marais, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. "Time and space, what we are doing with and in them, has become the driving issue of our moment. In its engagement with the question of what human and non-human life on the planet is becoming, this book is both telling and timely, eschewing the sort of specious orderliness that invalidates so much academic writing on the subject. Joyce’s famous questioning of the shifting coordinates of our lives – ‘Where are we at all? And whenabouts in the name of space?’ – echoes throughout in thought and spirit, and is extended by Valler into a multi-layered compass rose of a discussion that draws upon a huge range of sources. Anxious, engaged, warmly human, particularly in its commitment to the survival of the non-human, this is an extraordinary book. Read it."- Professor David Johnston, Queen's University Belfast

• Introduction, 1. Changing places: identity, space, and translationality, 2. Indeterminate encounters: translations in Modernity's ruins, 3. Taking the measure: a New Materialist theory of translation, 4. Translation and place: story-time after The End of the World, 5. Taking the measure of High Cross, 6. Terms of settlement: negotiating more-than-human co-existence, Index

Matt Valler holds a PhD in translation studies from Queen’s University Belfast. He is an independent scholar working at the intersection of translation studies, human geography, and philosophy and curates the Complex Cornwall seminar series at the University of Exeter. Matt is the founder of Labyrinth, a place-based narrative change project to re-imagine co-existence in the Anthropocene, and has designed interactive storytelling experiences in London, Melbourne, New York, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.

“Matt Valler is one of the most exciting and adventurous thinkers in contemporary Translation Studies. His work is a unique blend of theoretical rigour, contextual awareness and ethical sensitivity. A New Materialist theory of translation offers a whole new way of looking at translation and place by opening up a broad range of disciplines to the insights of translation perspectives.”- Professor Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin “With this original monograph, Matt Valler puts his finger on one of the critical spots in translation studies, namely the politics of matter. Translation studies can indeed no longer ignore the materiality on which its embodied existence, its culture and its continued survival is built, but Valler cleverly entangles this materiality with politics, including the power of humans to act on matter. Translation studies scholars need to read this book.”- Professor Kobus Marais, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. "Time and space, what we are doing with and in them, has become the driving issue of our moment. In its engagement with the question of what human and non-human life on the planet is becoming, this book is both telling and timely, eschewing the sort of specious orderliness that invalidates so much academic writing on the subject. Joyce’s famous questioning of the shifting coordinates of our lives – ‘Where are we at all? And whenabouts in the name of space?’ – echoes throughout in thought and spirit, and is extended by Valler into a multi-layered compass rose of a discussion that draws upon a huge range of sources. Anxious, engaged, warmly human, particularly in its commitment to the survival of the non-human, this is an extraordinary book. Read it."- Professor David Johnston, Queen's University Belfast

• Introduction, 1. Changing places: identity, space, and translationality, 2. Indeterminate encounters: translations in Modernity's ruins, 3. Taking the measure: a New Materialist theory of translation, 4. Translation and place: story-time after The End of the World, 5. Taking the measure of High Cross, 6. Terms of settlement: negotiating more-than-human co-existence, Index