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Master Thesis The Mask and the Social Actors Social, Political, Aesthetic and Cultural Functions of the Mask(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) ALTUNKAYA, HALİL; Bülent DikenThe mask, which dates back to the earliest periods of human history, is an object that has found a place in our lives over time, except for mythical ceremonies and special days. Even though humanity has partially severed its ties with primitive mythical ceremonies, the mask preserves its place and importance in our lives as it was on the first day. The mask appears as a multidimensional and comprehensive field of study. This multidimensionality and comprehensiveness complicate the limitations of research. In this study, it has tried to reveal the usage areas of the mask and the meanings it creates under different topics. The aim of the study is to reveal the common points that emerge as a result of different usage areas and to try to understand whether the mask actually creates an area where one can escape from social reality as a result of these common points. The examples selected and analyzed in this study have been kept wide and aim to reveal that the mask actually takes place in every moment of our lives and shapes our lives in a wide field of study ranging from cinema to carnival, from daily life to politics. The culturally different uses of the mask were excluded on the grounds that it would both decontextualize the subject and not serve the study. Due to the literature and examples used, the use of masks in Europe and there has been effective in determining the universe of the thesis. In this thesis, it is aimed to reveal the use of mask and mask in which situations and for what purpose, by using the general scanning method. The selected examples have been preferred in terms of the use of masks and the intensity and causality of the meanings attributed to it historically and currently.Doctoral Thesis Gündelik Hayatı Yeniden Düşünmek: de Certeau, Agamben, Deleuze ve Baudrillard ile Bir Diyalog(2025) Öztaş, Özgü Hazal Ertaş; Diken, BülentBu tez, aldatıcı biçimde basit bir soruyla yola çıkar: Gündelik hayatı başka türlü nasıl düşünebiliriz ve bu türden bir sorgulama neden önemlidir? Bu sorudan hareketle, yirminci yüzyılın önemli dört düşünürü-Michel de Certeau, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze (Félix Guattari ile birlikte) ve Jean Baudrillard-aracılığıyla 'taktik', 'dünyevileştirme', 'kaçış çizgisi' ve 'baştan çıkarma' kavramlarını bir araya getirerek gündelik hayatın imkânlarını yeniden düşünmeyi amaçlar. Bu çalışmada ele alınan düşünürler, gündelik hayatın tahakküm/direniş ya da üretim/tüketim gibi ikili mantıklardan sapma, bu mantıkları askıya alma ya da tersine çevirme yoluyla işlediğini gösteren kavramsal jestler geliştirirler. Bu jestlere dayanan alternatif gündelik hayat yaklaşımı, görünürlük, üretkenlik ya da karşıtlık yerine edilgenlik, örtüklük ve geri çekilme temelli bir mantığı öne çıkarır. Aynı anda hem mevcut hem de ele avuca sığmaz olan bu paradoksal mantık, süreksizlik, çokluk ve kararsızlıkla uyumlu bir eleştirel düşünme tarzını da beraberinde getirir. Bu bağlamda tez, gündelik hayatla kurulan eleştirel ilişkinin ifşa veya çözümleme zorunluluğunun ötesine geçmesi gerektiğini; bunun yerine tersinme, oyun, kaçış ve reddediş gibi jestler aracılığıyla sıradan olanın dokusuna ve içkin gerilimlerine duyarlı bir yaklaşım gerektirdiğini savunur.Sonuç olarak, bu tez, gündelik hayatı düşünce, eylem ve ilişki koordinatlarını askıya alan ve yeniden dağıtan; yerinden etme, kesinti, denk düşmezlik ve yeniden icatla işaretlenen karmaşık ve istikrarsız bir alan olarak yeniden kavramsallaştırır. Bu yolla hem kültürel çalışmalar ile toplumsal teori arasında yeni bir diyalog zemini önerir, hem de çağdaş dünyada gündelik hayatı yeniden düşünmeye yönelik eleştirel ve politik bir ufuk açmayı amaçlar.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Money Religion and Symbolic Exchange in Winter Sleep(Berghahn Journals, 2017) Diken, BülentWinter Sleep is the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan a Turkish director and screenwriter who has received international acclaim. For the purpose of social and cultural analysis this article critically focuses on the film's key themes and maneuvers that have diagnostic value from a social theoretical viewpoint. These themes are religion the relationship between religion and capitalism and symbolic exchange. Organized around these topics the article examines the religion-capitalism-symbolic exchange nexus by analyzing the motifs of formation intervention and intelligibility as these themes arise. This site of intersection is the conceptual pivot around which the article configures itself. It explores Winter Sleep based on what the film shows and says on screen how its thought processes emerge and at what points this thought supports or conflicts with dominant societal opinions.Master Thesis Dolaşan Mimarlık: Mekanın Olaysal Üretimi için Kavramsal Bir Çerçeve(2025) Karriqi, Jorela; Diken, BülentArticle Feeling Real, Feeling Free: the Body, Bio-Politics and the Spectacle in Blade Runner 2019 and 2049(The Netherlands Press, 2023) Diken,B.; Gilloch,G.This paper sets Scott’s original film Blade Runner (1982) and Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) in a ‘disjunctive synthesis’ in order to provide critical analyses of both films with respect to some complex configurations of the body along two axes: bio-politics and the spectacle. We offer a reading of these configurations by focusing on the relationships between the human (organic), the non-human (android) and the immaterial (holographic); the eye (optics), the hand (haptics), and aesthetics; slavery, instrumental labour and free-play; the politics of bodies and of memories; the potentialities of revolution and the transmission of ‘tradition of the oppressed’. In this, we foreground two seemingly marginal characters – J. F. Sebastian and Ana Stelline. These ‘little people’ embody and inhabit the convolutions of Blade Runner’s ‘more human than human’ world through ‘free use’ of the body and playfulness which, superficially innocent, nevertheless bear within them the promise of radical political change. © 2023, The Netherlands Press. All rights reserved.Master Thesis Sarmaşık’in Machiavelli’ye Uzanan Kökleri : Sarmaşık Filminin Machiavelli’nin Siyaset Felsefesi ile Analizi(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Yasin, Fatih; Diken, BülentBu çalışma yönetmen Tolga Karaçelik’in 2015 yılında çektiği Sarmaşık filmini bir Rönesans dönemi düşünürü olan Niccolo Machiavelli’nin siyaset felsefesi ile beraber analiz etmektedir. Bir gemide mahsur kalan altı insanın sınırlı kaynaklarla geçirdikleri günleri anlatan film, egemenlik, otorite ve yönetim hakkında düşünmeye imkân sağlamaktadır. Kaptanın gemisini yönetmeye ve egemenliğini korumaya çalışması, Machiavelli’nin devlet yönetimine ve egemenliğin korunmasına dair fikirleri ışığında incelenmiş ve filmin temasının Machiavelli’nin siyaset teorisiyle benzerlikleri ve farkları ele alınmıştır. Bu çalışmada Machiavelli’nin siyaset bilimsel teorik analizi ve film analiz metotları kullanılarak Machiavelli’nin siyaset teorisi ile Sarmaşık filmi karşılıklı bir okumaya tabi tutulmuştur. Çalışma neticesinde varılan sonuç Sarmaşık filminin anlatısı ile özelde Machiavelli’nin siyaset felsefesinin genelde ise sosyal teorilerin sinema ile birlikte ele alınıp yeni bir eleştirel alan açtığıdır.Master Thesis Hate Speech as an Abuse of Freedom of Speech(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) UYSAL, RAHMİ; Diken, BulentThe thesis thematises the actuality of abuse of free speech through three different – early modern, modern, and near-future – accounts of this nexus, demonstrating how the abuse continuously takes on new appearances. I initially define abuse of freedom of speech as hate speech in terms of corrupting free speech by populism through demagogy, commercialisation, and security concerns. I argue that hate speech no longer emerges in the classical form of insults and swears against particular minorities or people. Instead, it originates from demagogy, the reduction of free speech to a commodity, the psychological pressure of security politics, and the culture of fear. I name this form of hate speech the abuse of free speech. In doing this, I use mixed methods research. I firstly handle the critical film of Ken Russell's, the Devils (1971) through the textual analysis method of film studies. The Devils is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its explicit focus on the demagogic element in the nexus of parrhesia, cancellation, and self-censorship. Later, the study turns the Circle (2013), a novel by Dave Eggers, which elaborates on how the attempt at creating a transparent society causes the perversion of free speech through commercialisation. I examine the novel via literary analysis. In the next chapter, the study discusses how security concerns and fear legitimise hate speech through critical discourse analysis of former US President Donald Trump’s speeches on immigrants. To conclude, I articulate, in a prism, how populism corrupts free speech and leads to hate speech through demagogy, commercialisation and security concerns, and I underline the problems of populism by associating them with liberal democracy.Master Thesis Umudun Öteki Yüzü ve Limbo Filmlerinde Yabancı Figürü(2025) Tulgaroğlu, İrem; Diken, BülentBu tez, kent sosyolojisinin 'yabancı' figürüne bakışını inceleyerek, bu bakışın sinemadaki yansımasını analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Araştırma, kent sosyolojisindeki 'yabancı' figürüne dair literatürü inceleyerek mevcut çalışmaların izini sürmekte ve bu literatürü Umudun Öteki Yüzü ve Limbo filmleriyle ilişkilendirmektedir. Teorik ve ampirik boyutları birleştiren bu inceleme, filmlerin sunduğu anlatı, fikirler ve görsel imgeleri merkeze alarak bir 'çifte okuma' (double reading) yöntemi benimsemektedir. Filmler, sosyolojik teorilerle etkileşim içinde okunarak, teorik kavramların somut örneklerle görünür kılınması sağlanmış ve bu doğrultuda filmlerin teorik çerçeveler ışığında analiz edilmesi mümkün kılınmıştır. Tez, teorik temelini Georg Simmel'in kent sosyolojisindeki 'yabancı' kavramına dayandırmakta ve bu tartışmayı Zygmunt Bauman ile Richard Sennett'in yabancı kavramına ilişkin çalışmalarıyla genişletmektedir Ayrıca, Giorgio Agamben'in istisna hali, kutsal insan ve kamp kavramları da teorik çerçeveye dahil edilerek analize politik bir boyut eklenmiştir. Bu teorik yapı, yabancı figürünün sosyolojik ve politik yönlerini kapsamlı bir şekilde ele alırken, sinema anlatılarının bu figürü nasıl yansıttığını incelemeye olanak tanımaktadır. Araştırma, sosyolojik teori ve sinema anlatıları arasındaki dinamik ilişkiyi ortaya koyarak hem yabancı figürünün toplumsal boyutlarını hem de bu figürün sinemadaki yansımasını kapsamlı bir şekilde incelemektedir.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1“is Something Funny, Asshole?": Joker’s Nihilist Violence(De Gruyter, 2022) Diken, B.; Laustsen, C.B.Joker is a film that explores the forms of nihilism and their intertwinement in contemporary society. Thus, it can be viewed as a piece of theorizing and social diagnosis.We start with looking at the Joker’s violence.Why is it nihilistic and what sort of nihilism is that? But we can also see the Joker’s violence as an act of anti-nihilism, as a way of challenging society’s inherent nihilism. We discuss this in the following section. Is the Joker a revolutionary that criticizes society and opens up for a space for a new politics? In the third section, the article focuses on the film not as a narrative but as form: is it a comedy of pain or an attempt at overcoming nihilism? And, finally, by way of a conclusion, we ask what we should do with the Joker’s obscene laughter. The pivotal intuition in our discussion is that the concept of nihilism is a central and necessary tool for a diagnosis of our political predicament and a way to rethink the possibility of a radical emancipatory act within it today. © 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Terror as Potentiality - the Affective Rhythms of the Political(Routledge Journals, 2018) Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten BaggeThe paper addresses the ways in which the cultural, the affective and the political intersect, counter and/or feed upon one another in the context of contemporary terror. Initially, building upon Machiavelli and Hobbes, we deal with the political significance of terror (and the fear it provokes), emphasizing its potentiality, which inscribes future within the present. Then we turn to an analysis of terror in the prism of securitization. Terror, in this respect, amounts to de-materialization (the enemy as spectre), de-temporalization (the erasure of the temporal difference between the present and the future), and de-territorialisation the breakdown of the distinctions between inside' and outside'. Following this, we observe how these three processes are dealt with at the subjective and objective (social) levels. Regarding the first, subjective, level we differentiate three attitudes as paranoid, panic and rational. Regarding the latter, we consider terror in terms of accident, risk and catastrophe. Then, discussing the rhythmic relations between these conceptualizations and their spatio-temporal consequences, we focus on the notion of catastrophe. We end with articulating the aporias emerging in this context
