Palantir’s manifesto at X

Palantir occupies a more extreme place in Silicon Valley but represents a new, growing ethos Big Tech is developing. We have seen the company’s official X message today. A few early comments: This is the nationalist turn. Big Tech now explicitly acts as an agent of a nation-state, which in turn justifies its regulations worldwide. … Read more

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. 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

Aynur Doğan case demonsrates nationalist upper middle class Turks are the very source of ethnic problems in Turkey….

Those "jazz lover- white Turks" who booed and stopped Aynur Doğan, the Kurdish singer, are the very source of Turkey's many social problems. In terms of democratic rights they are not different and mostly worse than AKP government whom they hate with their fullest vigor. Based on being a citizens in this country for ages, … Read more