İbrahim Berkan Karataş
@lesociologuex.bsky.social
Streetwise sociologist, grassroots activist, enthusiastic researcher.
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Deadline for HM Istanbul extended!!!
"Dear all, we are delighted by your interest in our conference. In response to requests, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline by 10 days. The new deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3 December 2025."
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"Dear all, we are delighted by your interest in our conference. In response to requests, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline by 10 days. The new deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3 December 2025."
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Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
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November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Deadline for HM Istanbul extended!!!
"Dear all, we are delighted by your interest in our conference. In response to requests, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline by 10 days. The new deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3 December 2025."
hmistanbul.org
"Dear all, we are delighted by your interest in our conference. In response to requests, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline by 10 days. The new deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3 December 2025."
hmistanbul.org
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Bourdieu’s “Social Space and Symbolic Power” can help historians see how structures and institutions shape both social life and the writing of history. It calls for reflexive scholarship that recognizes its own place within systems of power and meaning.
From Structure to History: Applying Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to the Archive — Keanu Heydari
This essay offers a close reading of Pierre Bourdieu’s “Social Space and Symbolic Power” (1989) and interprets its significance for historical research. It investigates how Bourdieu’s concepts of soci...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Bourdieu’s “Social Space and Symbolic Power” can help historians see how structures and institutions shape both social life and the writing of history. It calls for reflexive scholarship that recognizes its own place within systems of power and meaning.
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‘Lukács Day’ has begun in Heidelberg. First stop: Keplerstr. 28, one of his residences in the city during the 1910s.
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
‘Lukács Day’ has begun in Heidelberg. First stop: Keplerstr. 28, one of his residences in the city during the 1910s.
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Michel Serres, Hermes III - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
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Hermes III
Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel ...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Michel Serres, Hermes III - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
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Günümüz sosyal ve beşeri bilimlerin en popüler isimlerinden Byung-Chul Han’ı sistematik ve bütüncül bir şekilde eleştiren makalem açık erişim olarak yayımlandı. Üç yıllık bir düşünsel emeğin sonucu. İstifade edeni bol olsun.
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August 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Günümüz sosyal ve beşeri bilimlerin en popüler isimlerinden Byung-Chul Han’ı sistematik ve bütüncül bir şekilde eleştiren makalem açık erişim olarak yayımlandı. Üç yıllık bir düşünsel emeğin sonucu. İstifade edeni bol olsun.
Tamamı için PDF Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tamamı için PDF Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Happy to announce that my latest article is now available open access.
Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility - Karataş - Constellations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility - Karataş - Constellations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility
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August 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy to announce that my latest article is now available open access.
Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility - Karataş - Constellations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility - Karataş - Constellations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This report reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Iraq, #Syria, and #Yemen.
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August 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This report reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Iraq, #Syria, and #Yemen.
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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Highlight of my summer readings so far: Charles Stépanoff on the history and anthropology of human-animal interactions. On multi-species societies in Siberia and why Enlightenment philosophy and industrialization are to blame for the agricultural crisis today.
July 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Highlight of my summer readings so far: Charles Stépanoff on the history and anthropology of human-animal interactions. On multi-species societies in Siberia and why Enlightenment philosophy and industrialization are to blame for the agricultural crisis today.
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Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025
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July 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025
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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology
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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology
This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s…
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July 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology
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Welcome to the desert of neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism isn’t just economic; it’s a mindset. It shapes how we live, feel, and relate. No solidarity, no vision. Just competition, precarity, empty promises. A desert: all surface, no substance.
Neoliberalism isn’t just economic; it’s a mindset. It shapes how we live, feel, and relate. No solidarity, no vision. Just competition, precarity, empty promises. A desert: all surface, no substance.
July 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Welcome to the desert of neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism isn’t just economic; it’s a mindset. It shapes how we live, feel, and relate. No solidarity, no vision. Just competition, precarity, empty promises. A desert: all surface, no substance.
Neoliberalism isn’t just economic; it’s a mindset. It shapes how we live, feel, and relate. No solidarity, no vision. Just competition, precarity, empty promises. A desert: all surface, no substance.
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Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025
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Books in this series published in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org 12 months later.
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Books in this series published in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org 12 months later.
Modern French Marxism
"Modern French Marxism" published on 26 May 2025 by Brill.
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July 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025
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Books in this series published in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org 12 months later.
brill.com/display/titl...
Books in this series published in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org 12 months later.
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.
It is at redshift 0.93 (lookback time 7.66 billion years) with coordinates (149.70853, 2.81202).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.93 (lookback time 7.66 billion years) with coordinates (149.70853, 2.81202).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
July 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.
It is at redshift 0.93 (lookback time 7.66 billion years) with coordinates (149.70853, 2.81202).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.93 (lookback time 7.66 billion years) with coordinates (149.70853, 2.81202).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
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Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa - @universitypress.cambridge.org, July 2025
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Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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July 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa - @universitypress.cambridge.org, July 2025
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“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said
July 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
July 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
Freedom of expression is not a natural right; it is built through struggle, conflict, and political costs. Though it appears universal, its limits and possibilities are shaped by power dynamics and must be constantly redefined.
July 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Freedom of expression is not a natural right; it is built through struggle, conflict, and political costs. Though it appears universal, its limits and possibilities are shaped by power dynamics and must be constantly redefined.
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Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky
June 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky
The most potent form of power today lies precisely in its ability to constantly deny itself — to perform the image of opposition to itself. Only through this mechanism can power naturalize its own existence. Its true success rests in this: integrating critique into the very structure of the system,
June 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The most potent form of power today lies precisely in its ability to constantly deny itself — to perform the image of opposition to itself. Only through this mechanism can power naturalize its own existence. Its true success rests in this: integrating critique into the very structure of the system,
“The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.”
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy
June 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.”
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy
“Violence obliterates anybody who feels its touch.”
Simone Weil, The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil, The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
June 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
“Violence obliterates anybody who feels its touch.”
Simone Weil, The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil, The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
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Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind - Routledge, May 2025
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The Deleuzian Mind
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. As with other French philosophers of his generation, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucaul...
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June 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind - Routledge, May 2025
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“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
David Graeber
David Graeber
June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
David Graeber
David Graeber
Via Antonio Gramsci
- Bologna, Italy
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June 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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- Bologna, Italy
- Bologna, Italy
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June 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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