Pataphysics
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LIBIDINAL ANKARA
No forms of art can express the unending, implacable shift of the Ankara childhood more refined and fierce than Sevgi Soysal’s novel Yürümek (Eng. “Walking”). It never ends, although reaches a sexual development in physical sense, it will remain in puberty at soul forever. It is subdued, restrained, oppressed, unjoyful, unholy, fraudulently pious and always…
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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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The Poetics of This-Worldy Absences: Baudelaire on Death
“Reduced to one last hope, that Death might…
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on “Junkopia” and other sanctuaries
Impossibility of adopting the past as an utopia: Be the tiny sandals of Hittites for their tiny feet in Amasya, Anatolia or be the chasing here and there after one’s bondage to Mother Earth, which is indebted for this idea of bondage to 2nd Century AD. No matter how noble they are, as reflected in…
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