yunus erdoğan
@erdoganyunus.bsky.social
apò mēkhanês theós | Radio-Television and Cinema, Istanbul University, BA | Media and Communciation Studies, Galatasaray University, MA
"Great artistic statements are often made by groups on the brink of imploding." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VE_...
Miles Davis with John Coltrane- March 21, 1960 Olympia Theatre, Paris
YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Great artistic statements are often made by groups on the brink of imploding." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VE_...
What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times
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November 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
“Literature, in all its forms, begins and ends with the fairy tale.” – Nazım Hikmet parisinstitute.org/a-cloud-in-l...
A Cloud in Love • The Paris Institute
Nazım Hikmet
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September 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Literature, in all its forms, begins and ends with the fairy tale.” – Nazım Hikmet parisinstitute.org/a-cloud-in-l...
André Bazin’s Academic Afterlives www.nrftsjournal.org/screen-media...
August 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
André Bazin’s Academic Afterlives www.nrftsjournal.org/screen-media...
20 Years Later, “Grizzly Man” Still Stuns Filmmakers and Audiences Alike www.sundance.org/blogs/20-yea...
20 Years Later, “Grizzly Man” Still Stuns Filmmakers and Audiences Alike - sundance.org
By Lucy SpicerIn a world where film serves as a form of escapism to many, it’s rare to see a documentary grab hold of public attention and embed itself in the zeitgeist. But that’s exactly what Werner...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
20 Years Later, “Grizzly Man” Still Stuns Filmmakers and Audiences Alike www.sundance.org/blogs/20-yea...
Stream of Rivals: Licensing Coalitions and Arthouse Film Streaming Platform journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
Stream of Rivals: Licensing Coalitions and Arthouse Film Streaming Platforms
In this journal, Ramon Lobato and Amanda D. Lotz recently pushed against the prevailing, zero-sum tendency to place [streaming] services into a singular competitive field, proposing instead a more mul...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Stream of Rivals: Licensing Coalitions and Arthouse Film Streaming Platform journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
“For the truth to have an effect on those to whom it is told, it matters when it is told to them – and, obviously, the same goes for political statements, especially with regard to the ongoing Gaza war.” open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p...
TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT GAZA
Comrades,
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August 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“For the truth to have an effect on those to whom it is told, it matters when it is told to them – and, obviously, the same goes for political statements, especially with regard to the ongoing Gaza war.” open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p...
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“Digital Culture Shock” by @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social is out today via @princetonupress.bsky.social! According to Library Journal, the book "offers a compelling argument that technology is never neutral.” #HCI #AI #BookSky press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Digital Culture Shock
How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design
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August 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Digital Culture Shock” by @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social is out today via @princetonupress.bsky.social! According to Library Journal, the book "offers a compelling argument that technology is never neutral.” #HCI #AI #BookSky press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Scholasticide in Gaza: A Need for Recognition of Systematic Educational Destruction as Genocidal
opiniojuris.org/2025/07/23/s...
opiniojuris.org/2025/07/23/s...
Scholasticide in Gaza: A Need for Recognition of Systematic Educational Destruction as Genocidal
[Kate May is an LLM international human rights law and practice student at the University of York] As Palestinian scholar Nabulsi warned over ten years ago, “Israel is seeking to annihilate an educ…
opiniojuris.org
August 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Scholasticide in Gaza: A Need for Recognition of Systematic Educational Destruction as Genocidal
opiniojuris.org/2025/07/23/s...
opiniojuris.org/2025/07/23/s...
New York City Ballet / "The Four Temperaments - Theme and 4 Variations" by Hindemith & G. Balanchine www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0KF...
New York City Ballet / "The Four Temperaments - Theme and 4 Variations" by Hindemith & G. Balanchine
YouTube video by shin-JP
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August 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
New York City Ballet / "The Four Temperaments - Theme and 4 Variations" by Hindemith & G. Balanchine www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0KF...
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Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, show @sofiacherici.bsky.social and @aylinlc.bsky.social in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation.
The Political Machine Feeding Turkey’s Wildfires
The blazes ravaging the country have been worsened by climate change, but were set by policy decisions
newlinesmag.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, show @sofiacherici.bsky.social and @aylinlc.bsky.social in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation.
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“Discredited ideas on race, genetics and IQ have become staple topics of far-right online discourse”
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Phrenology and IQ tests: the far-right revival of discredited race science
Resurging interest in theories of racial exceptionalism is turbocharged amid nuance-light world of social media
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July 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“Discredited ideas on race, genetics and IQ have become staple topics of far-right online discourse”
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Influencers, Influencers Everywhere thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/wicked-gla...
Influencers, Influencers Everywhere
From premieres to other events a big social following is all you need
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July 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Influencers, Influencers Everywhere thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/wicked-gla...
"Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In Defense of the Traditional Review
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
www.newyorker.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Happy Birthday to Marguerite Renoir! Best known as Jean Renoir’s film editor & life partner during the 1930s, her career before their collaboration has been largely overlooked.
Marguerite Renoir – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Happy Birthday to Marguerite Renoir! Best known as Jean Renoir’s film editor & life partner during the 1930s, her career before their collaboration has been largely overlooked.
Excavating the Video-Game Industry's Past
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Excavating the Video-Game Industry’s Past
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July 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Excavating the Video-Game Industry's Past
www.newyorker.com/business/cur...
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Summer reading! In his new book, ASA member Emilio J. Castilla @mit.edu analyzes the structure and culture of meritocracy inside organizations using real-world examples and showing the effects of personal biases and social barriers. @columbiaup.bsky.social
The Meritocracy Paradox | Columbia University Press
Meritocracy—the idea that individuals should be rewarded based on their talent and hard work—is one of the most widely celebrated ideals in education, bu... | CUP
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July 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Summer reading! In his new book, ASA member Emilio J. Castilla @mit.edu analyzes the structure and culture of meritocracy inside organizations using real-world examples and showing the effects of personal biases and social barriers. @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Yılanların Öcü (Revenge of the Snakes), Metin Erksan (1962)
July 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Yılanların Öcü (Revenge of the Snakes), Metin Erksan (1962)
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ASPARAGUS bit.ly/44HVm02
Pitt’s animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist’s inner world, and a viewing experience like no other
Pitt’s animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist’s inner world, and a viewing experience like no other
July 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
ASPARAGUS bit.ly/44HVm02
Pitt’s animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist’s inner world, and a viewing experience like no other
Pitt’s animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist’s inner world, and a viewing experience like no other
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Circular snapshots from the very first @Kodak camera (the first truly portable camera) — invented by George Eastman who was born #onthisday in New York in 1854. more examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kodak-no-1-circular-snapshots #OTD
July 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Circular snapshots from the very first @Kodak camera (the first truly portable camera) — invented by George Eastman who was born #onthisday in New York in 1854. more examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kodak-no-1-circular-snapshots #OTD
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The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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"Active users" can mean very different things. Pretty sure everyone who's got a website, newsletter, whatever can attest to Bluesky outperforming as a traffic driver, which was hard to come by even when the alternatives weren't heinous and Google worked
I dunno y'all. This site is 12 liberals who agree with each other about everything shouting at one another. Is there any reason to think it will evolve into anything different?
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July 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Active users" can mean very different things. Pretty sure everyone who's got a website, newsletter, whatever can attest to Bluesky outperforming as a traffic driver, which was hard to come by even when the alternatives weren't heinous and Google worked