Author: Alparslan Nas

CultPost is a platform that I share my personal essays and academic publications since my MA studies. Having completed my BA and MA in Cultural Studies at Sabancı University in Istanbul, I gained my Ph.D. degree in Advertising at Marmara University Faculty of Communication at Istanbul. After being enrolled as a research assistant for five years, I am currently working as an Assistant Professor at the same Faculty. The platform that I manage offers essays and articles regarding various topics ranging from cultural studies, media studies, literary studies, critical theory, advertising, and branding. It also constitutes a major space for me to contact my students regarding the updates in my courses.

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_ I have been recently attending one of my master’s class, in which we were discussing the relationship between anthropology, … More

On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life

_ “In any case, I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” These words … More

Hall’s "Oppositional Code" and the Possibility of Counter-Hegemonic Performances in Culture and Literature

_ What Stuart Hall, in his essay “Encoding/Decoding”, posits as the three kinds of codes of televisual discourse; dominant-hegemonic position, … More

Marxist and Structuralist Anaylses of “Apologizing”

_ In “Rediscovery of “Ideology”: The Return of the Repressed”, Stuart Hall indicates that the effects of class struggle may … More

[Nota Bene] Call For Papers and Editorial Board

_ As a student-run journal in Sabancı University, Nota Bene Journal of Arts and Social Sciences is waiting for your … More

Art as Technique

_ “If we start to examine the general laws of perception, we see that as perception becomes habitual, it becomes … More

Beckett & Ionesco: The Absurd & Resistance

_ Reference: Alparslan Nas LE NÉANT DANS LA PENSÉE CONTEMPORAINE (The Nothing in Contemporary Thought), ed. Norbert-Bertrand Barbe, Bès Editions, … More