ABSTRACT
Translation is manifestly a complex activity. This chapter explores the proposition that translation is an example of organized complexity, a form of complexity that involves interrelating a sizable number of factors into an organic whole. Paradoxically, translators are the source of that organization: The discrete processes used by individual translators and groups that translate constitute an open-ended system of discrete but partially overlapping solutions to (1) the generativities and (2) the asymmetries of languages and cultural forms. These overlapping processes constitute a field that resolves the complexities and indeterminacies of the open-ended number of factors that characterize the complexity of translation in human activity as a whole.
