I very much enjoy the
psychobilly tagged songs in
Lastfm. Just had made a CD collection of psychobilly songs (very much thanks to Ceren Mert), so that i can also listen to them out loud in my car.
Another happy moment in recent days was my talk in Dutch Consulate to a group of visiting police officers from Netherlands. I seem to have to done all right in the talk and when I went back there for a cocktail next day with
Hans, I seemed to have gotten good feedback about the talk.
The eseminar went well too. It was a relatively lively discussion. You can get all the discussion text soon
here.
My application to Encyclopedia Britannica was accepted and for one year I will be able to link
Britannica Online articles and when you click on those links, you will be able to read them for free.
A low moment last week was that our lovely fan group Çarşı officially ended its existence. Recently I had reactivated my Beşiktaş blog and you can read the latest developments
there and own long portrayal of the end of Çarşı (all in Turkish, sorry). It feels like being an orphan with the official end of Çarşı but it was coming, i had observed it for a long time now...
Here is some of the related news on Çarşı:
Çarşı puts an end to its 25-year-long story Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Turkish football agenda is shaken with the most influential fan group's decision to disband, as
Beşiktaş's Çarşı declares it is splitting.
... Çarşı puts an end to its 25-year-long story
On the 25th year of its birth, Turkey's most organized and influential football fan group, Çarşı of Beşiktaş has disbanded, its leader Alen Markaryan declared Tuesday night. Speaking...
Since the beginning of my new times of anti-socialization, I tend to read a lot and play a lot and watch a lot- how could I live otherwise? Just finished Prof. Featherstone's
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism.
For the last edition, Prof. Featherstone added a new preface and a new last chapter. These new additions are quite strong and make the book updated for current debates. One will not find fancy theoretical concepts to focus on but the author emphatically points out a sociological understanding of postmodernism. In that sense, it works. The reader is urged to think about the sociological validity of postmodern theories. Since most of the chapters were written at least 15 years ago, the literature seems to be old but the discussion is still up to date and as i said in the beginning the author informs us about the recent literature on the field in his additions for the last edition...
This week i have an intellectual agenda:
There is a fantastic list of participants in this organization that will last all week:
Check out the program
here.
Funny thing is that although this event takes place in our university, those colleagues who are involved in it, did not bother to inform us until last Friday. I take it a typical narrow mindedness of academism. After such pressure, it was announced in our mailings lists. Erkan takes note of this attempt to hiding knowledge.
Finally,
Erkan is planning to do some minor changes in the blog main page but he will announce it anyway.
My thanks go to Randi and Iman who were extremely friendly and who hosted me for two days. Iman has started 
