Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation

Walter Benjamin has famously pointed out that we are living in a society in which the exception has become a norm. Giorgio Agamben adds to this claim another one, that the spatial ordering principle for this new order is the camp. This article focuses on this diagnosis. We do not, however, discuss its validity but rat…

Well over a millennium and a half ago, Augustine distinguished between two cities: the Heavenly City and the Earthly City. While one was the site of all that was holy and spiritual, the place of faith, the other was foul and wicked, the realm of the flesh. Such dichotomies, expanded into a full‐fledged binary logic, p…

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We describe here a Turkish girl with pigmentovascularis type 2b, consisting of disseminated Mongolian-spot-like maculae and unilateral Sturge-Weber angiomatosis.

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• HAKTAN URAL

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This is a study of the link between the house and the city, based on a close reading of three historical statements from Western urban theory by Leone Batisti Alberti, Le Corbusier, and Paul Virilio. Sexualized metaphors of the house as the feminine, private realm and the city as the masculine, public realm proliferat…

Gilles Deleuze Sinema II: Zaman-İmge eserinde sinema ve düşünce arasındaki ilişkiyi kendi ürettiği “beden sinema” ve “beyin sinema” kavramlarıyla inceler. Deleuze, düşünceden kaçan şeyin “yaşam” olduğunu ileri sürerken, bedeni merkeze alır. Düşünürün beden kavrayışı, Spinoza’nın “etkileme ve etkilenme gücü” anlamında…

• SERDAR ÖZTÜRK

Çalışma hazırlanırken nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden genel tarama modeli kullanılarak tespit yapılmak istenmiştir. Michel Foucault’un mekân ve heterotopya hakkındaki metinleri taranmıştır. Ardından Tophane-i Amire’nin tarihine dair yazılı metinler incelenmiştir. Araştırma nesnesi olarak seçilen mekânın ‘heterotopik’ d…

I propose that any depiction ... invites the eye to exercise a certain practical “interpretive” capability. The eye “interprets” the task set to it by the painting. The task is a lifeworld task, not a theoretical one; it is meaningful to the viewer in practical, descriptive, and human narrative terms. \n— Patrick Heel…

• AYNUR ELHAN NAYİR
• EMİN ERSÖZ YİĞİT

This study aims to examine crypto art in the context of aura (halo), uniqueness, testimony, and, authenticity by evaluating digital NFT technology from the perspective of Benjamin, who has only experienced image technologies such as photography and cinema. The research argues that the aura did not vanish with crypto-a…

• ESRA BOZKANAT CERGİBOZAN

This article evaluates the role of art – particularly mechanically reproduced forms of art – in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. The central claim is that both thinkers share the same conviction as to the emancipatory potentials of the work of art. Yet, they evaluate the effects of technological…

• GAYE İLHAN DEMİRYOL