Translation as icosis as negentropy at the edge of chaos

Kobus Marais’s monograph Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Approach carves out new territory in translation studies, namely what might be called translational development studies – but it also seeks to fuse that subdiscipline with an invigorated complexity- theoretical framework. This article promote advance project by offering correctives two areas where his own framework remains somewhat blurry fact, undeveloped the translator’s agency social constructivism. The explores emergentist theory of “icosis” (somatic plausibilization) as a solution that, like approach, is steeped Peircean semeiotic.