Balca Arda
tbalca.bsky.social
Balca Arda
@tbalca.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Visual Communication Design, Kadir Has University - Istanbul
We r all mad here in social media #aliceinwonderland
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
...confessional narrative as the subject and object of narration threaten to coincide..comical example: Dr Jekyll's confession where the moral narrator and his immoral alter ego literally cannot coincide ...schism of the subject and object of confession (p67, About Time - Mark Curie, 2007)
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What we learnt so badly is that we cannot solve anything by arguing or being sincere - only to find ways to dominate and if you are lucky to bargain but never you can return to what you once had my old academics dont you?
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
For men to be considered good in society, it is enough to be good, but women, they need to be bad to themselves to be considered good
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What is assumed to be private, reserved, familial, isolated...thats where social assistance systems should be generated to be political
April 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We dont have anymore peace of mind to dream on an emancipatory far away escape land. Let's face together the ugency of coherant planning
April 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Arbitrary governmentality cancels any planning, calculation, futures to foresee throughout analytical thinking for any subject. Not sheer but harsh violence starts to be exercised here from this point.
April 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Social media's placebo effect of community has finally lessened up for all for good
April 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Old tactics of countering neoliberal governmentality do not work against other types. For sure, that's always hopeful feeling in solidarity in mass gatherings. But regeneration means more labor than this.
April 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Structuralist approach to power has never been so defeated to the realist paradigm of individual leaders' decisions since neoliberal rise in the world. #forgettingfoucault
April 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM