My own work as a thinker has no mother tongue, only a succession of translations, of displacements, of adaptations to changing conditions. In other words, the nomadism I defend as a theoretical option is also an existential condition that for me to translate into a style of thinking.

The new Comparative Literature makes visible the import of the translator's choice. In the translation from French to English lies the disappeared history of distinctions in another space – made by the French and withdrawn by the English – full of the movement of languages and peoples still in historical sedimentation at the bottom, waiting for the real virtuality of our imagination. If we remain confined to English language U.S. Cultural Studies, we will not be instructed either by the staging of restricted permeability or by the disappeared text of the translation from and into European national languages that form the basis of what we know as Comparative Literature.