Benevolence

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Bilimsel bilgiye erişimin sorunları ve açık erişim hareketi

Kütüphane Haftası her yıl Mart ayının son haftasında çeşitli etkinliklerle kutlanmaktadır. 2014 yılında 50. Kütüphane Haftası nedeniyle İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi tarafından bilimsel bilgiye erişim ve açık erişim konusu bu konuda çalışma yapan uzmanlar ve akademisyenlerin katılımı ile tartışıldı. Bu etkinliğin afiş, program, sunum ve videoları ekte yer almaktadır

An Ethics of Images: ‘The Distant’

The rapid development of private media and especially television in Turkey in the last two decades has led to the emergence of a consumerist society of the spectacle. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis of this new cultural hegemony and poses the question of the status of image in such a culture. In the first part, it offers an analysis and discussion of the status of the image in the new spectacular hegemony. In the second part, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s award-winning film, The Distant, is interpreted as transforming the sense of image in everyday life and offering a new ethics and politics of image developed on the margins of contemporary cultural hegemony.Peer reviewe

The Carriage Affair, or the Birth of a National Hero

The Carriage Affair, written in the late 19th century and regarded as a “canoni- cal” work of Turkish literature, is the parody of a mimic man produced by the Ottoman reform. The author Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem breaks with the familiar moralistic criticisms of the “Westernized snob”, which constituted a genre in the late 19th and early 20th century novel, and produces a surprisingly modern and lively literary text. Inventing interior monologue in a fascinating parody of the protagonist (who imitates the plot of the French popular romantic novel), while courageously dismissing the moral and logical alternative of a national subject of “true” mimesis, he also takes the risk of miming mimesis and falling into a void. According to standard literary judgment, the result is his failure to produce a pro- per narrative closure, to pass from mimesis to diegesis, i.e. to resolve the conflict which constructs the story. Reading the novel through its critical readings as well as a detailed discussion of the concepts of parody, mimesis and femininity, I argue that there is a paradoxical success in Ekrem’s failure. This unexpected literary work of its times virtually prefigures and preempt the later nation building in the 20th century. Most important of all, it demonstrates that any effort of representation and writing is always performed on a shifting ground.publishedVersionPeer reviewe

...East of Here... (Re)Imagining the "Orient"

Salloum provides a general context for "...East of Here..." by examining the political and cultural relations between the Middle East and the West. Bringing together works by artists from diverse backgrounds creates a multi-layered exhibition concerned with issues of cultural identity, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism. Kawaja's paper focuses on how representations of "Arab" women affect women's rights activists in the Middle East and North America. Marks questions the stereotypical representations of the "Orient" produced in the West. Hassan's analysis of the relationship between cultural production and economics focuses on questions concerning ideology, authoritarianism, and neo-orientalism. Artist's projects by Vogwill and Thorne. Brief descriptions of videotapes, films, and installations. Biographical notes. 54 bibl. ref