Traduction et paratraduction en tant que stratégies de résistance à la réification à l’ère de l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA)
Translation and paratranslation as resistance strategies to reification in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Summary/Abstract: Philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that we are living in a transition from the “era of things to the era ofnon-things”. According to his perspective, things do not determine the world we live in: information does.Consequently, the profession of translation has become increasingly mechanized to meet the high demandfor “information”, turning readers into compulsive consumers of words. Thus, there is a significant riskof confusing the symbolic representation of words with essential reality, neglecting the importance ofcontext and paratext in the construction of meaning. This phenomenon can lead to a loss of meaning inthe act of translation, diminishing its role as a bridge between cultures and languages. Borrowing from theaxiom of Portuguese intellectual Rui Pereira in a society of “non-thought”, it is crucial to reflect on how“translating in times of non-translation” operates. In this regard, the objective of this essay is to analyzehow paratranslation, from the Vigo School, can be understood as a space of resistance against a process ofreification of the other’s existence in the act of translating. In the “AI era”, where translation has becomean increasingly mechanized act, the examination of the paratexts surrounding this process serves as a wayto return to the fundamental condition of translation: the human condition.

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