It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
After last night's long conversation with my friend on different phenomenological dimensions of the metamorphosis of the world (vulgo: digitalisation and its revolutionary afterbirth), I dreamt myself during a night shift at Sabancı University's 24/7 library. It was in April 2014. In that dream, I saw me walking to the vending machine at the building's... Continue Reading →
I listened to that name yesterday, in a podcast of Açık Radyo (Open Radio), with some delay. And I realized -- and I actually realize similar absurdities all the time -- that scholars quoted in my masters thesis, in my dissertation (underway & in spe), so far living in footnotes and elsewhere in my writings,... Continue Reading →
There is this amazing software tool Evernote, which I generally use to store online news articles and other non-confidential documents of all kind somewhere in "the cloud". To make the respective document easily retrievable by intuition, you can immediately add one or more tags. For instance, if you want to save an article on Recep... Continue Reading →
Yabancı in İzmir In Izmir, I was a hampered and hobbling yabancı (foreigner) with limited contacts, with less "world" than in İstanbul. I moved myself from one to another café every day, where I would contemplate in front of my field diary, throwing myself into the indefinite ocean of writing, contained by my migrant notebook,... Continue Reading →
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