_ Marx’ın Dönüşü (Marx in Soho) is a play written by Howard Zinn, directed and performed by Genco Erkal for…
Herculine Barbin: The Unintelligible in the Threshold between Life and Death
_ The obscurity on Herculine Barbin’s gender might be better analyzed in the context of her memoirs, which would contribute…
Eagleton & Freud: Civilization as self-marring?
_ First of all, before responding to Eagleton’s arguments on Freud’s pessimism, I should say that I agree with Eagleton’s…
Notes on the "Impossibilities" in Shoah
_ While discussing the relation between post war situation in Europe and the “new” cinema, Deleuze writes, “In Europe, post-war…
Idelber Avelar’s Commentary on Jorge Luis Borges
_ Idelber Avelar, in the second chapter of “The Letter of Violence”, firstly points at the debate between analytic philosophy…
Notes on Trauma and Repetition Compulsion in Macbeth
_ William Shakespeare’s plays occasionally have been subjects of psychoanalytical literary criticism since the theory was first founded by Sigmund…
On the Concept of History
IX _ My wing is ready for flight, I would like to turn back. If I stayed everliving time, I’d…
Weber vs. Marx: Notes on Urbanism
Max Weber, in “The Nature of the City”, argues on the possible definitions of a city. According to Weber, there…
Aylak Adam’ın C.’si ile "Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar" üzerine bir söyleşi
(Sevgili dostum C.’den Pazar şarkısı tavsiyesi: Pink Floyd – Shine on You Crazy Diamond) Hayatının sürekli olarak, detaylarıyla açıklanamayan ve…
Notes on Butler’s Abject & Agamben’s Muselmann
Judith Butler introduces her thoughts on the notion of abjection firstly by debating on notion of construction. According to Butler,…
Alparslan Nas 