[Yorum] [Literatur] Selo gori, a baba se češlja

“Svijet gori, a Handke se češlja” (za Aidu, protiv rata) Ovo je bio moj komentar na Miljenka Jergovića, cijenjenog i dalje cijenjenog pisca, malo sam taj komentar možda i odredio i obradio, sigurno u njemu ima grešaka. Ali hej - šta je greška? Greške su za anuliranje dok su samo lijepo napisane. Jergović je iz...

[Religion] Astarte, Ostern, Freud und der Vaterkult

Da ich realisiert habe, dass Facebook ein schädliches und unnützes Tool ist, wenn es um etwas anderes gehen soll, als die Produktion "öffentlicher Meinungen" zu beobachten oder herauszufordern, und dass es in keinster Weise -- auch nicht unter in aller Form gebildeten und/oder "liberalen" Menschen -- dazu taugt, ernsthafte Diskussionen oder Kritik der eigenen öffentlichen...

[Tropik] Das binär gebürstete Hin- und Her des Neo-Re: unser Interregnum, Herrschaften wie Jair Bolsonaro, das sich-Bewegen von Bewegungen.

Unser anhaltender, mit tweetendem Tempo um sich greifender Zwischenzustand ist wohl mit Antonio Gramscis Interregnum reichlich treffend erfasst, den ich hier als Alternative für den Begriff der Metamorphose diskutieren will. Die Erfassung dieses Interregnums – und ihm so überhaupt beikommen zu können – erscheint mir dringender denn je. Auf die Gefahr hin, zu wiederholen, was ich...

[Dissertation] The discoursive ‚running to and fro‘ between Sarajevo and Istanbul: a Bosniak-Turkish communicative figuration in the context of gentrificating the Ottoman hinterland

  Research Question My central research question is how the experience and collective memory of (mostly forced) Muslim refugeeness — known as muhacirlik in Turkish — is interrelated with the rehabilitation and gentrification of the Ottoman past in significant parts of the political and societal sphere of Turkey and the „Western Balkans“ in the past...

[Kapital] Money as a belief system in metamorphosis

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...

[Politik] Civilian death and martyrdom in academia

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,...

[Politik] From Suruç to the suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights

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...