Critical Theory and Political Philosophy

Prelude: Occupy Turkey Altug Yalcintas 1. Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey Altug Yalcintas 2. Political Potential of Sarcasm: Cynicism in Civil Resentment Secil van het Hof 3. Vernacular Utopias: Mimetic Performances as Humour on Gezi Park and Bay?nd?r Street Utku Balaban 4. Gezi Protests and the LGBT Rights Moveme…

• ALTUĞ YALÇINTAŞ

This article departs from analyses that underline the middle-class character of June 2013 (Gezi Park) protests in Turkey by focusing on the relationship between politics and aesthetics in the protest movement. The predominant form of protest in the movement was aesthetic political acts, which did not bring about any d…

• ERDEN ATTİLA AYTEKİN

This article focuses on the intimate relationship between two concepts, revolution and critique, arguing that the understanding of radical critique within social and aesthetic theory was directly inspired by the concept of revolution – revolution as a libertarian utopia that links critical thought with its epoch. Howe…

The article discusses the predicament of contemporary critique by focusing on a theoretical case, the ‘sociology of critique’ as it is formulated by Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) and developed by Boltanski and Chiapello (2007) . This sociology is critical of critical theory and endeavours to supplement critical theory…

This article focuses on contemporary artworks outlining the current refugee flow from the Middle East to the West, namely to European countries together with the US and Canada. Drawing primarily on Jacques Rancière’s conceptualization of ethical art versus aesthetics, I explore how various journeys of refugees in its…

• TALAT BALCA ARDA

In this article, the authors make a case for using the city as a classroom, and through semiotic lenses, they reflect on the assignments and the outcomes of three courses they offered in diverse geographic locations. In these interdisciplinary courses they encouraged students to purposefully explore aspects of their c…

• İSMAİL ÖZGÜR SOĞANCI

Gezi Parki Resistance is a unique case in Turkey as a grassroot movement that realized without the support of any institutional oppositon. It indicates that Turkish movements become close to the new kind of social struggles that occur in the different places of the world. Tha aim of the paper is to analyze its movemen…

Bu çalışma kapsamında romantizm ve postmodernizm kavramlarının genel bir tanımı yapılarak her ikisi arasındaki düşünsel ve sanatsal bağlantılar aydınlatılmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu bağlamda çalışma, karşılaştırmalı bir kavram analizi niteliği taşımaktadır. Düşünsel açıdan her iki kavram da öncelikli olarak Aydınlanmacı mo…

Bugün imgelerin ne oldukları ve işlevleri hakkındaki söylemlere baktığımızda, imgelerin, ‘imge ve sözcük’ arasında süregiden çekişmeden bağımsız kendi doğaları hakkında konuşulduğu gerçeğiyle karşı karşıya kalıyoruz. Bu çalışmada, tanımlanan alana ilişkin uygun bir yer ve kuram, dolayısıyla eleştirel bir tavır bulma a…

• MEHMET ŞİRAY

Emerged in the mid-19th century, the mechanical reproduction techniques changed the definitions of work of art, artist, and the social role of art. These transformations triggered an extensive socio-cultural revolution during the 20th century. Art turned out to be an instrument for guiding the masses; and the communis…

Öz: Platon hem demokratik yönetimin pratikteki açmazlarından hem de sahip olduğu epistemolojik ve ahlaki kaygılardan hareketle demokrasiyi reddeder.İnsanın kendi doğasına uygun işi yapmasını toplumun mutluluğu ve adaletin gerçekleşmesi için zorunlu görür.Meslekler hiyerarşisini sarsan, değişim ve çokluğu içinde barınd…

• FERDA YILDIRIM GÜLENÇ

The use of space in the mainstream performing arts is based on the division of the acting and performing spaces with an imaginary wall. The sharp division of the space by this invisible conventional border, also called the fourth wall, originated from the fundamentally distinct role definitions assigned to the audienc…