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Issue 5 Interview with Ahmet Ersoy

June 28, 2023December 11, 2020 | Zeyno Pekünlü, Ahmet ErsoyInterview

In this episode of Red Thread Issue 5 interviews, Ahmet Ersoy, who contributed to the issue with his text titled “Neo-Ottomanism in the Age of Digital Media”, examines the effects of social isolation, estrangement and de-skilling experienced in the contemporary world and intensified through the pandemic.

Neo-Ottomanism in the Age of Digital Media

May 2, 2023May 1, 2020 | Ahmet Ersoy

Since the end of the nineteenth century various thinkers, from Nietzsche to Walter Benjamin, observed the profound impact of the modern Capitalist system on the human perceptual field, with its consumption-oriented machinery generating endless flow and mobility.