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I will not miss 2016 but it was a productive year in reading-wise…
My GoodReads profile... Read more
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Brief note on New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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... Read more
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Book website: Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation
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... Read more
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A website for the “books Atatürk read”
A site prepared by Istanbul... Read more
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An edited volume: “Punakademics” – free to download…
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... Read more
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A few books on “Race in Europe”
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.... Read more
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A literati roundup: “12 Writers Who Still Refuse to Use Computers”, digital humanities, 2011 Words of the Year…
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... Read more
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photos of the last 7 years before the 12 September 1980 coup by Kadir Can
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.... Read more
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Once upon a time, here are some technological expectations in early 1990s…
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,... Read more
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More new novels from Erkan’s favorite authors…
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... Read more
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4 new novels from Erkan’s favorite novelists….
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... Read more
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Another İstanbul book….Le Corbusier returns to Istanbul…İstanbul news roundup…
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... Read more
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Deniz Ergürel: İnternetin görünmeyen filtreleri
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... Read more
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Mark Hansen’s “New philosophy for new media”
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... Read more
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Mette Hjort, Scott MacKenzie’s edited volume: “Cinema and Nation”
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.... Read more
