A Spectre Is Haunting Digital Network: Rewriting Of Karl Marx By Volunteer Translators

Abstract

Rewriting practices are changing in the digital age. One open science movement is the Öncül Analitik Felsefe [Premise Analytical Philosophy] community, rewrites and retranslates the ideas of Karl Marx through the tradition of analytical philosophy instead of the continental philosophy tradition that is more common in Türkiye. The community rewrites and retranslates Marx’s ideas within concepts such as alienation, colonialism, and historical class struggle. In light of this information, this study examines within its scope the profiles of the volunteer translators of the Öncül Analitik Felsefe community, their reasons for rewriting and retranslating Karl Marx’s ideas, their processes, and what the rewriting of Marx’s ideas means in today’s society. The study uses the netnographic analysis method to conduct the analysis within the framework of the concepts of online social translation, online collaborative translation, community translation, and user-derived translation content production. Following the source-target based content analysis carried out within this framework, the study applies a thematic analysis to the answers obtained from the interview conducted with the founder of the mentioned community. As a result, the rewriting and retranslating of Marx’s ideas in digital networks based on the analytical philosophy tradition is seen will not only bring a different perspective to Marx but also contribute to the democratization of the network society

Keywords

• karl marx
• online social translation
• öncül analitik felsefe community
• rewriting and retranslation
• volunteer translators