Essays

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Arzu, Yoksunluk ve Baba: Aylak Adam ile Anayurt Oteli'ne Psikanalitik Bir Bakış

Türk edebiyatına psikanalitik bir bakış (Turkish-language essay)

Hidden Memories: The 1961 Paris Massacre in Michael Haneke's Caché

Buried colonial memory in Haneke's Caché

The Kadro Movement: From Marxism to Kemalism

A Turkish intellectual circle's path from Marxism to Kemalism

Lines of Flight: Desire, Deterritorialization and the Return of Authority in "Unchosen"

Deleuze and Guattari on Netflix's Unchosen

Class, Archive, and Impossible Testimony in "The Museum of Innocence"

Love and curatorial power across Pamuk's novel, museum, and series

Die My Love as a Narrative of Abjection

Motherhood, desire, and the fragility of the coherent self

Nomadic Brands, Rhizomatic Advertising: A Deleuzian Analysis of Consumption with Dr. Güleser Ekşioğlu

A conversation on rhizomatic brand communication, nomadic consumption, and deterritorialization

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Nomadik Markalar, Rizomatik Reklamlar: Dr. Güleser Ekşioğlu ile Tüketimin Deleuzeyen Analizi

Rizomatik marka iletişimi, nomadik tüketim ve yersizyurtsuzlaşma üzerine bir söyleşi (Turkish-language interview)

Popular Culture as a Site of Struggle

Stuart Hall, articulation, and the possibility of alternative meanings

Secrets We Keep and the Nordic Equality Myth

Migrant care work behind Denmark's affluent facades

Reading Cassandra as a Cyborg

Gender, surveillance, and the limits of technological liberation

Squid Game as a Postmodern Narrative

When an anti-capitalist story becomes a capitalist commodity

The Substance as a Feminist Doppelgänger Narrative

Ageism, the divided self, and the grotesque body

Anatomy of a Fall and the Death of the Author

Barthes, interpretation, and the production of truth

Class and Poverty as Advertising's Absent Referents

Why class inequality stays invisible in advertising

Reading Emily in Paris with Barthes

Stereotypes, myths, and invisible class differences

Can a Country Be a Brand?

Nation branding, soft power, and lessons from around the world

Poor Things and the Biopolitics of Liberation

The Greek Weird Wave and Foucault's biopolitics in Lanthimos's Poor Things

La Casa de Papel as a Product of the Culture Industry

Adorno and Horkheimer meet Money Heist

A Round of Applause as an Anti-Series: Absurdism, Language, and the Refusal of Meaning

Reading Kuvvetli Bir Alkış as an anti-series that refuses coherent meaning

Representing Religious Conservatism in "One Love" and "Red Roses"

Who gets to represent religious-conservative life on Turkish TV

The Handmaid's Tale as a Feminist Dystopia

Reproductive biopolitics and the fragility of rights

The Club: Historical Reckoning and the Autobiographical Pact

Minority memory and counter-history in "Kulüp"

Holidays in Greece Through Bourdieu

Class, distinction, and cultural capital

Burning Days: Representing Provincial Turkey as a Malevolent Other

Şerif Mardin's center–periphery lens on Turkish cinema

Brand Activism: A Critical Perspective

From Bernays to Benetton on brand activism

Chokehold: The Uncanny Home and the Violence of Class

Freud's uncanny and the violence of class in the Turkish film Boğa Boğa

Intersectionality in Media and Popular Culture

Overlapping identities beyond single-axis feminism

Can Advertising Be Feminist? The Contradictions of Femvertising

Nike, Dove, Always, and the limits of feminist marketing

Oh Belinda Across Two Eras: Feminism, Advertising, and Turkey's Changing Cultural Landscape

A 1980s pop song and its revival trace shifting ideas of femininity and advertising

Who Were We Running From? Adultism, Motherhood, and the Inheritance of Escape

On adultism, motherhood, and inherited patterns of fleeing across generations

Mourning at a Distance: Brecht, Psychoanalysis, and Mother Courage

Distance, mourning, and the interrupted work of grief in Brecht

Absurdity as Resistance: Language, Memory, and Jouissance in Beckett and Ionesco

Language, memory, and resistance in the theatre of the absurd

Approaching Woody Allen's Zelig through the Lens of Cultural Theory

Bakhtin, Adorno, Foucault, Butler, Lacan, and Agamben through a chameleon protagonist

Entartete Kunst and the Fascist Appropriation of Modernism

Fascist aesthetics, Futurism, and the politics of “degenerate art”

Vico After the Enlightenment: Myth, Fiction, and Twentieth-Century Thought

Vico's afterlife in Adorno, Kafka, and Bakhtin

Writing the Self in Fragments: Barthes, Nietzsche, and the New Autobiographer

Fragmentation and coherence in the autobiographical “I”

How Literature Performs: Autobiography, Minor Literature, and the Politics of Repetition

Austin, Butler, and literature as a performative act

Beyond Gender, Within Language: Herland and The Left Hand of Darkness

Gender, language, and feminist utopia in speculative fiction

The Crown That Cannot Be Possessed: Trauma and Repetition in Macbeth

Trauma, kingship, and repetition in Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Coat That Returns: Repetition and the Signifier in Gogol's The Overcoat

Repetition and the signifier in Gogol's classic tale

Seeing Modernity: Youth, Realism, and the French New Wave

Youth, realism, and rupture in the French New Wave

The Letter That Positions Us: Poe, Lacan, and the Structure of Reading

Lacan's return to Freud through Poe's Purloined Letter

The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival, Grotesque, and Temporary Liberation

Bakhtin on carnival, the grotesque body, and temporary liberation

Movement, Time, and the Postwar Image: Notes on Deleuze's Cinema

Deleuze on the movement-image and the time-image

From Continuity to Conglomerates: The Development of Classical Hollywood Cinema

Five periods in the development of classical Hollywood cinema

Italian Neorealism and the Problem of Cinematic Reality: Zavattini and Bazin

Zavattini, Bazin, and the neorealist claim on reality

Dziga Vertov's Kino-Pravda: Modernity, Labor, and the Limits of Revolutionary Vision

Modernity and labor in Vertov's revolutionary newsreels