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Erkan Saka
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Academic and Blogger
This is a book project I have been thinking about for over six months. The book idea emerged from our doctoral seminars in İstanbul. The CFP borrows vocabulary from the recent decolonial literature but is not necessarily bound to its frameworks. erkansaka.net/2025/08/16/d...
August 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Efendim Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri doktora programımızın yeni bir kahve sohbetini duyurmak isterim. 17 Aralık 2024'te Saat 18:00'da Ufuk Eriş konuğumuz olacak. Bekleriz!
December 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Merhabalar, Istanbul Bilgi University İletişim Bilimleri doktora programı olarak kahve sohbetlerimize devam ediyoruz. Sevgili Rakel ile bu dönemin ilk kahve sohbeti 26 Kasım'da 18:00'de yüzyüze gerçekleşecek, bekleriz.
November 23, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Erkan’s Field Diary is 20 years old!
I came back to Istanbul for the fieldwork in 2004. I defended my thesis in 2009. However, I kept blogging. It has become a life-long project and a reason to shift attention to emerging communication technologies.
erkansaka.net/2024/06/27/e...
June 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Today's #quote: "It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, they drank too much last night." in The Stories of John Cheever
April 20, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Today's #quote: "The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be," in The Stories of John Cheever
April 15, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Today's #quote: ""Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner," in The Stories of John Cheever
April 12, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Today's musing. Peace of Mind in Metaphysical Painting #midjourney
April 9, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Today's musing. Peace of Mind in Art Informel #midjourney
April 7, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Today's musing. Peace of Mind in American Regionalism #midjourney
April 6, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Today's #quote: "Experience is algorithmically incompressible," in The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
April 5, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Today's musing. Peace of Mind in #AfricanTribalArt #midjourney
April 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Today's musing. Peace of Mind in #neoplasticism #midjourney
March 29, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Today's #quote: "Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent," by Ted Chiang in Stories of Your Life and Others
March 26, 2024 at 1:01 PM
"An open-air workshop in #byzantium where an ornate, steampunk-style 3D printer is crafting the Gypsy Girl" mosaic #midjourney #anachronisms
March 22, 2024 at 4:28 PM
February 16, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Today's #quote: "For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues." in The Stories of John Cheever
February 3, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Today's musing. Peace of Mind in #Primitivism Made with #GoogleBard
February 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Leonardo da Vinci at the Museum of Modern Art #Midjourney #anachronisms
February 1, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Today's #quote: "What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours," The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
January 31, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Today's musing. #Midjourney Peace of Mind in #NorthernRenaissance
January 30, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Conan the Cimmerian in the siege of Constantinople with a laser saber #Midjourney #anachronisms
January 28, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Today's #quote: "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.," François de La Rochefoucauld
January 27, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Today's musing. #Midjourney Peace of Mind in Harlem Renaissance Art
January 24, 2024 at 11:05 AM
January 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM