Author: Ahmet A. Sabancı
Common ground: Holly Herndon in conversation with James Bridle
Our desire for control is precisely the problem. We are never going to understand the world more broadly. We’re not going to be able to talk to trees in the way that we talk to one another. But we need to be able to live meaningfully, equitably with them and with all other natural systems.…
Over at the Blog: Revisiting “Manfred Macx Media Diet”
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Monthly Log: July 2019
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Turkey’s Online Censorship Just Leveled Up
(This is the first piece I wrote for Patreon after the reboot. This piece is locked to “First to Read” tier and above for the first 24 hours and then it’ll become public. Hope you’ll enjoy it. —Ahmet) You all probably know that one of the things I’ve been writing about a lot is the…
Men. Abuse. Trauma. | Philosophy Tube
Olly from PhilosophyTube was one of my favorite YouTube channels for a while and especially does brilliant works for a while. This one I think is something really big for him and everyone who’s watching. Talking about trauma through his personal experience and philosophy is something hard to do. It probably gets much harder when…
Against the Pop Culture Nostalgia
I mean, the stuff that’s going on right now is insane, and we need people to be responding to it. If I can’t hear the present or the future in culture, I feel like we’re doomed to repeat the past forever. We’re not opening up that kind of mental space we need to move forward. It’s…
The Average Reader
My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and…
Cogito 92 – Türkiyeli Kadın Felsefeciler
Sanırım Türkçe dergiler arasında en sevdiğim yayın Cogito. Ancak bir süredir takip edemediğim için “Türkiyeli Kadın Felsefeciler” sayısından yeni haberim oldu. Görür görmez de sipariş verdim. Böyle özel bir sayı çıkarttıkları için Cogito ekibine teşekkür ederim. Sayının linki için sitelerine bakarken son birkaç sayının da tam benlik olduğunu fark etmek açıkcası hiç iyi olmadı. Bu…
Shipping and Taxes Not Included [From the Newsletter]
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