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Streetwise sociologist, grassroots activist, enthusiastic researcher.
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/...
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.
“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
“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
“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
- Bologna, Italy
June 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Via Antonio Gramsci
- Bologna, Italy
- Bologna, Italy
Reading Haven
June 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reading Haven
“Where love and desire are concerned, there are no adequate examples; and all of our objects must bear the burden of exemplifying and failing what drives our attachment to them.”
Lauren Berlant
Lauren Berlant
May 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Where love and desire are concerned, there are no adequate examples; and all of our objects must bear the burden of exemplifying and failing what drives our attachment to them.”
Lauren Berlant
Lauren Berlant
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
May 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher
May 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher
This piece by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a groundbreaking book that challenges conventional narratives about human history. Instead of viewing the development of civilization as a linear path from equality to hierarchy,
May 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This piece by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a groundbreaking book that challenges conventional narratives about human history. Instead of viewing the development of civilization as a linear path from equality to hierarchy,
This seminal interdisciplinary text reconceptualizes consumption not merely as an economic act but as a communicative and symbolic one, situated within the broader matrix of cultural codes, social structures, and value systems.
May 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This seminal interdisciplinary text reconceptualizes consumption not merely as an economic act but as a communicative and symbolic one, situated within the broader matrix of cultural codes, social structures, and value systems.
In his book Male Domination, Bourdieu argues that gender hierarchies are reproduced through what he calls symbolic violence: a form of gentle, invisible coercion that makes inequality feel natural or inevitable.
May 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In his book Male Domination, Bourdieu argues that gender hierarchies are reproduced through what he calls symbolic violence: a form of gentle, invisible coercion that makes inequality feel natural or inevitable.
“Social legitimacy is more important than legal legitimacy, because legal legitimacy can be lost at the whim and power of those in authority — but once social legitimacy is earned, it endures.”
Behice Boran
Behice Boran
May 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Social legitimacy is more important than legal legitimacy, because legal legitimacy can be lost at the whim and power of those in authority — but once social legitimacy is earned, it endures.”
Behice Boran
Behice Boran
Kitap tavsiyeleri:
April 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Kitap tavsiyeleri:
Pier Paolo Pasolini visiting Antonio Gramsci’s grave.
Rome, around the 1960s–70s.
Rome, around the 1960s–70s.
April 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini visiting Antonio Gramsci’s grave.
Rome, around the 1960s–70s.
Rome, around the 1960s–70s.
Berlant’s this piece is a profound meditation on the paradoxical attachments that sustain contemporary life, even as they erode the very conditions for flourishing. At the heart of her argument lies the concept of cruel optimism:
April 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Berlant’s this piece is a profound meditation on the paradoxical attachments that sustain contemporary life, even as they erode the very conditions for flourishing. At the heart of her argument lies the concept of cruel optimism:
“In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried.”
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried.”
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Lenin wasn’t just a revolutionary — he was also a true cat lover. On his birthday, we remember not only his Bolshevik resolve but also the gentleness to stroke a cat in the midst of history.
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Lenin wasn’t just a revolutionary — he was also a true cat lover. On his birthday, we remember not only his Bolshevik resolve but also the gentleness to stroke a cat in the midst of history.
“Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
April 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class is a landmark in social history that reshaped how we think about class, agency, and historical experience. The book charts the emergence of the working class in England between the 1780s and 1830s,
April 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class is a landmark in social history that reshaped how we think about class, agency, and historical experience. The book charts the emergence of the working class in England between the 1780s and 1830s,