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I will not miss 2016 but it was a productive year in reading-wise…

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My GoodReads profile here

Brief note on New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is probably one of the best/most substantive readers in new media. It provides a historically broader perspective on the emergence of new media. Most of the volumes on the topic rely on buzz and … Read more

Book website: Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation

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Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation Neala Schleuning Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach … Read more

A website for the “books Atatürk read”

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A site prepared by Istanbul University

An edited volume: “Punakademics” – free to download…

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  Punkademics Edited by Zack Furness The basement show in the ivory tower… In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ?zines and three … Read more

A few books on “Race in Europe”

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I stole the book titles from an ongoing discussion at H-SAE mailing list:) Susan J. Terrio (2009) Judging Mohamed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice. Jacqueline Nassy Brown (2005) Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool. Slavenka Drajykucm’s , Café Europe: Life After Communism is a great … Read more

A literati roundup: “12 Writers Who Still Refuse to Use Computers”, digital humanities, 2011 Words of the Year…

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Orhan Pamuk is one of them… 12 Writers Who Still Refuse to Use Computers Jan 1st, 2012 Computers are incredible tools: we use them to connect around the world, gather all of the information in the universe, find inspiration, and maybe play a few games now and then. They’re also very helpful for writers, offering … Read more

photos of the last 7 years before the 12 September 1980 coup by Kadir Can

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News photographer Kadir Can published photos he tooks in the last 7 years before the coup d’etat in Turkey  in a book… In order to buy the book, click here.  I found these photos here. **********

Once upon a time, here are some technological expectations in early 1990s…

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From The New Media Theory Reader, 39-40 A basic development in the very near future is the merger of computers and telecommunications (Bradley et al., 1993; Scientific American Special Issue, 1991), known variously as the information superhighway (Koelsch, 1995), the infobahn (Mitchell, 1995), Integrated Services Digital Network (Horrocks/Scarr, 1993), the telecomputer (Gilder, 1990), the SuperTube … Read more

More new novels from Erkan’s favorite authors…

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view book The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates Release Date: November 1 “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one nig…more view book The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 5 by Neil … Read more

4 new novels from Erkan’s favorite novelists….

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view book The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Release Date: October 11 It?s the early 1980s?the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking …more view book 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Release Date: October 25 … Read more

Another İstanbul book….Le Corbusier returns to Istanbul…İstanbul news roundup…

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Many intellectuals came together to produce this book (in Turkish): İstanbul: Şehir ve Kültür     Le Corbusier returns to Istanbul after 100 years by ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News santralistanbul is exhibiting Le Corbusier?s works for the 100th anniversary of the famous architect?s journey to the East. His architecture is on view at gallery through … Read more

Deniz Ergürel: İnternetin görünmeyen filtreleri

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  İnternetin görünmeyen filtreleri George Orwell meşhur ?1984? adlı romanında, insanların zorla köle yapıldığı bir dünya hayal eder. Bu dünyada insanlar zorbalıkla ve baskıyla yönetilmektedir. Aynı dönemin bir diğer ütopya yazarı Aldous Huxley ise ?Cesur Yeni Dünya? adlı eserinde bambaşka bir dünya kurgular; insanların daha embriyo iken eğitilmeye başlandığı bu dünyada, zorbalık ve baskı yoktur. Dünyanın … Read more

Mark Hansen’s “New philosophy for new media”

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Mark Hansen’s New philosophy for new media is one of the enlightening books I have recently read on new media. I am not too knowledgeable on digital art and thus I have had difficulties to grasp all the arguments all over the book but its introduction may give you clues about thinking new media from … Read more

Mette Hjort, Scott MacKenzie’s edited volume: “Cinema and Nation”

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One of the free readings books I am on. I am not working on these issues right now but i like to read about them. So this fits just fine. I am in the middle of it, but i enjoyed reading the first articles and just to note: FRAMING NATIONAL CINEMAS Susan Hayward. This articles seems … Read more