Meltem Ahıska Hope is a memory that desires. --Balzac What could Balzac, the great novelist of the nineteenth century, have meant when he said that "hope is a memory that desires"? Interestingly, both Roland Barthes [...]
Meltem Ahıska Monsters, monuments, and power Georges Canguilheim has argued that "what is contrary to life is not death but monstrosity" (cited in Ancet, 2010: 18); monstrosity is the inability to recognize a living being [...]
Meltem Ahıska The auratic tradition of Atatürk Monuments and the artificial-natural Drawing on the previous section, I argue that the contemporary discussion about Turkey's monuments that turn into monsters cannot be separated from the field [...]
Hafriyat This project was realized in collaboration with Ha Za Vu Zu and Yeni Sinemacılar art collectives.
Angela Harutyunyan [1] In the core of cultural politics is ultimately the act of naming. In fact, cultural politics itself is nothing but a negotiation of language, assignment of concepts, construction of frames as well [...]
Banu Karaca But I think that sensitivity is also a good counselor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. Johannes Rau[1] Don't worship my hurt feelings, Mr. Intentional. Lauryn Hill[2] On the evening of September [...]
Yaşar Adnan Adanalı Today İstanbul ranks seventh among world cities in the number of foreign visitors and international meetings it hosts and fifth in the number of dollar millionaires living within its premises.[2] It is [...]
Meltem Ahıska and Erden Kosova Can you please briefly tell us about the founding of Bir Umut [lit. One Hope] Association and the number of people involved? Before the 1999 Marmara Earthquake we were individual [...]
Deniz Yonucu [1] Introduction: In July 2003, an incident took place in Hasköy, Istanbul that was newsworthy, even though it was not in the papers: 5 young men around the ages16-17 want to enter the [...]
Haydar Darıcı ...philosophy does not concern itself with children. It leaves them to pedagogy, where they are not in very good hands. Philosophy has forgotten about children.[1] Bernard Schlink Abstract[1] This article provides an analysis [...]
