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A TRIBUTE TO AGE 27
“All children, except one, grow up.” I am thinking of this writing as a birthday gift to myself. In a week, on December 27, I am out of this age 27. 27 was fine, 27 was glorious, and more than any age, it requires a tribute and praise. In any case, when it’s gone, it…
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AT HOME IN CHAOS
Contemplations from my visit to Francis Bacon’s studio at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, on November 2018. Considering my admiration for Bacon, it still seems unlikely that I have not visited Bacon’s studio on my first trip to Dublin in 2016, which, at the time, felt as if it was the first and the…
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Derrida’s Notion of Metaphysics and of Postmetaphysical Philosophyzing
One can make sense of the overall context of 20th century including Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida with the help of adopting a notion on which all of these philosophers agree to have taken as their subject matter of inquiry; namely, overcoming of the traditional Western metaphysics. Although three of them adopt distinct paths for doing…
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TÜRKİYE’DE BELGESELİN YENİ MEKANLARI VE YENİ FORMLARI ÜZERİNE BİR TAHAYYÜL: ARTIKİŞLER KOLEKTİFİ
“Video, imajları onları verenlere iade edebilme sanatıdır.” Ulus Baker, Nedir Video? “Özgürleşme; bakma ve eylem arasındaki karşıtlık sorgulandığı zaman başlar; video-eylemci bu ara bölgede yer alır…” Jacques Rancière “…bu da gariptir ha…” Ramazan Giriş: “Sahici Olma” ya da İçtenlik Meselesi Video-eylem, Artıkişler Kolektifi, otonom arşivler, modern sanat ve belgesel sinemaya değineceğim bu…
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The Beauty of Action: Fluxus and the Reincarnation of Authenticity
Fluxus and the Reincarnation of Authenticity “Monsieur G. does not like to be called an artist. Is he perhaps a little right? His interests is the whole world; he wants to know, understand and appreciate what happens on the surface of the globe. The artist lives very little, if at all,…
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MASUMİYET GÖREVE!
Tartışmasız olarak her biri bir yönüyle “propaganda filmi” kategorisine girebilecek olan Türkiye’de Sovyet yönetmen Yutkevich tarafından çekilen Türkiye’nin Kalbi Ankara’nın (1934), ABD tarafından diğer Avrupa ülkeleriyle birlikte Türkiye’yi de kapsayan ekonomik yardım (ve daha çok dönüştürme/ entegrasyon) planı Marshall yardımları üzerine çekilmiş filmlerin ve Türkiye’de ordunun tekelinde çekilen filmlerin belgesel sinemanın anlatım araçlarını ne dereceye…
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“Görüntünün Dilini Ne Kadar İleri Götürebiliriz?”
Türk sinemasının öyle ilham verici bir dönemiymiş ki Genç Sinema hareketi, özellikle belgesel açısından bakıldığında, 1960’lardaki “halka rağmen halk için” kültür filmleriyle başlayıp Kanlı 1 Mayıs(1977) filminde olduğu gibi yaratılan ve gösterilen imajlarla, bu imajları oluşturmakta faydalanılan insan kitleleri/ halk arasında bir organik bağ yaratmayı ve bu etik/politik içeriği, olabilecek en estetik şekliyle aktarmayı başarmak…
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NOTES ON MARX AND HEGEL
HEGEL AND MARX The relation of Marx to Hegel has been an intensely debated issue especially starting from the development of Western Tradition of Marxism, in which the philosophical debates concerning methodology is one of the core problems of the overall tradition. Among the theoreticians of Western Marxism, Lukacs is probably the first philosopher…
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Alternative Currencies: Ithaca HOURS Case
Local exchange systems could be employed as a means of building social capital among individuals in a society, unlike conventional forms of exchange systems which proposes a standardized relationship based on monetary interest between the purchaser and the seller. Exchange is implemented via national currencies conventionally. This exchange system poses several social problems related to…
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Copernican Revolution and Our Confrontation with the “Spaceship Earth”
Latouche, in his book where he lays out the misconceptions and discussions on the concept of degrowth, quotes the most prominent theoretical criticism of degrowth by Odum as “it relies on unjustified and even false scientific grounds” (2018). What he specifically refers as “the scientific grounds” is the second law of thermodynamics, known as the…
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