New media technologies are interactive and multi-layered and they dissolve the distance and the a... more New media technologies are interactive and multi-layered and they dissolve the distance and the aura that relies on distance; this is why its potential to create public sphere should be analysed. In this study, new media’s potential to create public sphere is explored through examining the “way of seeing” it produces and new media is taken as a text and its discourse is analyzed. To understand the “way of seeing” new media produces, the nature of the relationship between new media and its user, its conception of time, space and reality inherent in its structure are problematized.
Avrupa ülkelerinin büyük bir göç dalgasıyla karşı karşıya kaldığı 2015 yılı sonrasında Mülteci Kr... more Avrupa ülkelerinin büyük bir göç dalgasıyla karşı karşıya kaldığı 2015 yılı sonrasında Mülteci Krizi olarak anılmaya başlayan olay, daha ziyade modernliğin krizini göstermektedir. Bu yazıda, bu krizi ele alırken tüm dünyada medyada en çok kullanılan imgelerin ürettiği söylem çözümlenmekte; aidiyet, sınır, ulus-devlet, ev ve evsizlik, kimlik, öteki, özgürlük ve kapat(ıl)ma, tarih ve etik meseleleri bu imgeler ekseninde tartışılmakta ve bu imgelerin modernliğin bir krizi olarak bu krize karşı eleştirel bir pozisyon almaya imkân verip vermediği tartışılmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, bu imgeler aracılığıyla bu krizin modernlikten kaynaklanan bir sorun olarak değil, modernliğin istisnası olarak inşa edildiği, bu suretle krizin modernlik lehine çözüldüğü ve sömürgeci söylemin yeniden üretildiği iddia edilmektedir.
In this study, with reference to the idea that ambiguity -which is considered as a deficiency and... more In this study, with reference to the idea that ambiguity -which is considered as a deficiency and an inadequacy and thus suppressed in the modern way of seeing- is actually the element that enables different interpretations, the insights and blindnesses of Zeki Demirkubuz films will be discussed through these films relations with ambiguity. In this direction, the way power is problematized in these films while simultaneously being re-established through the absolutization of entrapment within social structures that envelop the individual will be discussed. The main objective of this study, rather than explaining and attributing absolute meanings to these films, is to understand and establish productive relations with these films which constitute a cultural ground for understanding modern day Turkey and Turkey’s relationship with modernity and modernization.
In this paper, the regime of memory produced in The Museum of Innocence, a museum created and cur... more In this paper, the regime of memory produced in The Museum of Innocence, a museum created and curated by the author Orhan Pamuk is discussed. The museum was opened in 2012 in Istanbul and it was based on Pamuk’s novel of the same title published in 2008. The intertextual novel-museum and the museum-novel blur the distinctions between fiction and reality, as well as the distinctions between individual and social memories and focus on everyday life and personal objects rather than the “monumental” national history. The regime of memory produced in this museum is discussed in this paper in relation with the process of modernization in Turkey. The understanding of time, space, reality and individual prevailing in the museum are evaluated in order to understand whether the museum produces a creative remembering that problematized the process of remembering or a regime of remembering that is based on absolutizing the past.
New media technologies are interactive and multi-layered and they dissolve the distance and the a... more New media technologies are interactive and multi-layered and they dissolve the distance and the aura that relies on distance; this is why its potential to create public sphere should be analysed. In this study, new media’s potential to create public sphere is explored through examining the “way of seeing” it produces and new media is taken as a text and its discourse is analyzed. To understand the “way of seeing” new media produces, the nature of the relationship between new media and its user, its conception of time, space and reality inherent in its structure are problematized.
Avrupa ülkelerinin büyük bir göç dalgasıyla karşı karşıya kaldığı 2015 yılı sonrasında Mülteci Kr... more Avrupa ülkelerinin büyük bir göç dalgasıyla karşı karşıya kaldığı 2015 yılı sonrasında Mülteci Krizi olarak anılmaya başlayan olay, daha ziyade modernliğin krizini göstermektedir. Bu yazıda, bu krizi ele alırken tüm dünyada medyada en çok kullanılan imgelerin ürettiği söylem çözümlenmekte; aidiyet, sınır, ulus-devlet, ev ve evsizlik, kimlik, öteki, özgürlük ve kapat(ıl)ma, tarih ve etik meseleleri bu imgeler ekseninde tartışılmakta ve bu imgelerin modernliğin bir krizi olarak bu krize karşı eleştirel bir pozisyon almaya imkân verip vermediği tartışılmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, bu imgeler aracılığıyla bu krizin modernlikten kaynaklanan bir sorun olarak değil, modernliğin istisnası olarak inşa edildiği, bu suretle krizin modernlik lehine çözüldüğü ve sömürgeci söylemin yeniden üretildiği iddia edilmektedir.
In this study, with reference to the idea that ambiguity -which is considered as a deficiency and... more In this study, with reference to the idea that ambiguity -which is considered as a deficiency and an inadequacy and thus suppressed in the modern way of seeing- is actually the element that enables different interpretations, the insights and blindnesses of Zeki Demirkubuz films will be discussed through these films relations with ambiguity. In this direction, the way power is problematized in these films while simultaneously being re-established through the absolutization of entrapment within social structures that envelop the individual will be discussed. The main objective of this study, rather than explaining and attributing absolute meanings to these films, is to understand and establish productive relations with these films which constitute a cultural ground for understanding modern day Turkey and Turkey’s relationship with modernity and modernization.
In this paper, the regime of memory produced in The Museum of Innocence, a museum created and cur... more In this paper, the regime of memory produced in The Museum of Innocence, a museum created and curated by the author Orhan Pamuk is discussed. The museum was opened in 2012 in Istanbul and it was based on Pamuk’s novel of the same title published in 2008. The intertextual novel-museum and the museum-novel blur the distinctions between fiction and reality, as well as the distinctions between individual and social memories and focus on everyday life and personal objects rather than the “monumental” national history. The regime of memory produced in this museum is discussed in this paper in relation with the process of modernization in Turkey. The understanding of time, space, reality and individual prevailing in the museum are evaluated in order to understand whether the museum produces a creative remembering that problematized the process of remembering or a regime of remembering that is based on absolutizing the past.
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