Bülent Diken

Diken, Bülent

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Bülent Diken

Job Title

Prof. Dr.

Email Address

bulent.diken@khas.edu.tr

Main Affiliation

Radio, Television and Cinema

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Scholarly Output

26

Articles

9

Citation Count

9

Supervised Theses

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Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 2
The Collector's World
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020) Diken, Bülent; Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; Radio, Television and Cinema
The article discusses the figure of the collector. We start with positioning the collector in relation to a lack, emphasizing that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure or even perfectness, but primarily about filling a gap. The collection itself is merely a by-product of the desire to collect. Discussing how this desire is socially mediated, we move on to contextualizing the collector in relation to the distinction between the useful and the useless. We stress, in this context, that collecting is an inoperative praxis. This is followed by a discussion of the collector's psychopathology in terms of affects and interpassivity. Finally, we turn to the history of the collector and to collecting as a field in sociological terms, and end with articulating a typology of the collector.
Cultural Heritage - Its Digital Preservations, and Collateral Damage
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022-12) Kahraman, Baran; Diken, Bülent; Bülent Diken; Radio, Television and Cinema
The fundamental goal of this thesis is to examine the relationship between cultural heritage and 3D visualizations of them, stretching and challenging the definition of simulacra in order to better understand what role the concept of digital preservation plays in contemporary cultural heritage preservation practices. At the basis of my argument is the allegation that digitalization of cultural heritage preservation shares with virtual reality a new mode of production, a rhetorical position employed to specific, cultural, and symbolical ends. The purpose of this connection is two-fold: first, I examine 3D visualization in cultural heritage preservation apart from CGI or CAD, which only mimics the computational creation; this position investigates and questions how capturing reality in 3D within all dimensions (only appearances) brings a new dissolution of heritage that we can put any material object or site in any scale into Virtual Reality or reproduce it up to 3mm accurate representation. Second, I make a conceptual analogy of the Baudrillardian perspective of digital imagery to criticize the virtual solutions to preserve cultural heritages. I also describe that those solutions might open more expansive windows to a new visual culture, a new production pipeline within the Deleuzian perspective. Situating the digital blueprints of cultural heritage under the banners of their most repeated utilities and functions (immersion, dissemination of knowledge, human-computer interaction), the thesis uses case studies to illuminate and illustrate the digitalization of preservation in which digital reproduction technologies have virtually constitute the shape of the cultural heritage in the last couple of years. It also creates a creative visual study to provide the necessary demonstration of theoretical argument and the digitalization process itself in order to express the new territorial practices of cultural heritage under the transmission to the digital infrastructures.
Sarmaşık’in Machiavelli’ye Uzanan Kökleri : Sarmaşık Filminin Machiavelli’nin Siyaset Felsefesi ile Analizi
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Yasin, Fatih; Diken, Bülent; Diken, Bülent; Radio, Television and Cinema
Bu 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.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 2
Terror as Potentiality - the Affective Rhythms of the Political
(Routledge Journals, 2018) Diken, Bülent; Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; Radio, Television and Cinema
The 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
Resistance Is an Inside Job: Liquid Surveillance Within the Context of Dispositif, Subject and Lines of Flight
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2020) Uçak, Mesut; Diken, Bülent; Diken, Bülent; Radio, Television and Cinema
Despite the growing human rights and privacy concerns, liquid surveillance machine is now capable of moving with lightning speed in all areas of our lives. Governments and huge transnational companies exploit the data that are gathered from our physical and digital activities with highly questionable methods and purposes. While governments legitimize their efforts by relying on national security discourse and companies on so-called customer satisfaction, now we face an unprecedented privacy crisis which also generates ethical and ontological concerns about human dignity. However, ordinary people who voluntarily participate in liquid surveillance machine, especially within the consumer realm, are as responsible as afore-mentioned actors since they provide the required data and make that machine work and expand. That's why it is meaningless to attribute all the responsibility to the Big Brother who sees everything. Hence, the thesis argues that liquid surveillance is a dispositif of the societies of control and the subject that is the product of the relationship between that dispositif and living beings is the nihilistic last man. The study tries to explore lines of flight from the societies of control within the context of liquid surveillance. In the light of that theoretical framework, the thesis analyzes activities of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which is a non-profit, anti-surveillance organization that promotes digital privacy, free speech at digital platforms and innovation. The study builds a theoretical methodology that enables a comprehensive analysis of the EFF's activities within the contexts of liquid surveillance as the dispositif, nihilistic last man as the subject and counter-information as incarnation of lines of flight.
Citation - WoS: 3
Citation - Scopus: 4
"life Is a State of Mind' - on Fiction, Society and Trump
(Routledge Journals, 2017) Diken, Bülent; Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; Radio, Television and Cinema
The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always interact in subtle ways, which is why cinema can be a resource for diagnostic social analysis. We first articulate a general commentary on the relationship between cinema and society, introducing the concept of socio-fiction'. Secondly, we analyse Peter Sellers' Being There, an interesting film focused on the relationship between reality and fiction. In this analysis, we elaborate on different ways of approaching fiction in a sociological prism. And finally, we discuss Trump as a fallout effect of Being There. After all, a film is not just an image of a reality, a shadow or appearance of a social fact; sometimes the reality itself seems to have become an appearance of an appearance, a shadow of a shadow.
Toplumsal Eleştiri Olarak Sinema ve Mizah
(2023) Çam, Hazal Beril; Diken, Bülent; Diken, Bülent; Radio, Television and Cinema
Bu tez, mizahın bir toplumsal eleştiri yöntemi olarak sinemada nasıl kullanılabileceğini araştırıyor. Aynı zamanda, uygulamalı bir tez olarak bu yöntemleri yazdığım ve yönettiğim Sinek Gibi adlı kısa film üzerinden tartışıyor. Bu tartışmalar, şu sorular üzerinden yürütülüyor: (1) mizah teorileri nelerdir; (2) mizaha ideolojik yaklaşımlar nelerdir; ve (3) bu teoriler ve yaklaşımlar nasıl uygulanabilir? Bu sorulardan hareketle mizahın üç teorisi olarak üstünlük, uyumsuzluk ve rahatlama teorileri, seçili filmler aracılığıyla açıklanmış ve tartışılmıştır. Kısaca, üstünlük teorisi, insanların başkalarından üstün hissettiklerinde ortaya çıkan bir mizah çeşididir. Uyumsuzluk teorisi, beklenmedik veya çarpıcı olanla ilgilidir. Rahatlama teorisine göre ise, mizah, gerilimin serbest bırakılmasından kaynaklanır. Bu genellikle, kutsal veya tabu konuları içerir. Bunlarla beraber, yıkıcı, muhafazakar ve gayriihtiyari muhafazakar olarak kavramsallaştırılan üç ideolojik yaklaşım, filmler aracılığıyla açıklanmış ve tartışılmıştır. Kısaca, yıkıcı mizah, hegemonik güç ilişkilerine içkin olan kalıpları, normları ve değerleri sorgulamayı ve değiştirmeyi amaçlarken muhafazakar mizah, bunları korumayı hedefler. Gayriihtiyari muhafazakar mizah ise, aslında onları sorgulama niyeti taşısa da varolan güç ilişkilerini pekiştirir. Son olarak, kısa filmim 'Sinek Gibi' tezde tanıtılır ve bu mizah teorileri ve ideolojik yaklaşımlar, filmin bazı sahneleri aracılığıyla tartışılır. Tezin teorik ve pratik bileşenleri, toplumsal yapıları ve normları sorgulamak için mizahın uygun şekilde kullanmanın ne kadar önemli olduğunu vurgular. Anahtar Sözcükler: komedi, mizah, sinema, üstünlük, uyumsuzluk, rahatlama, muhafazakar, yıkıcı, gayriihtiyari muhafazakar
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Feeling Real, Feeling Free: the Body, Bio-Politics and the Spectacle in Blade Runner 2019 and 2049
(The Netherlands Press, 2023) Diken,B.; Diken, Bülent; Gilloch,G.; Radio, Television and Cinema
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.
The Mask and the Social Actors Social, Political, Aesthetic and Cultural Functions of the Mask
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) ALTUNKAYA, HALİL; Diken, Bülent; Bülent Diken; Radio, Television and Cinema
The 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.
Citation - WoS: 1
Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism
(Sage Publications, 2021) Diken, Bülent; Radio, Television and Cinema
I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in terms of a monstrous transgression of the law. But since the monster is grounded in its very formlessness, it cannot be demonstrated. However, one can always try to de-monstrate it through disagreements. In doing this, I deal with despotism not as a solipsistic undertaking but as part of a constellation that always already contains two other elements: economy and voluntary servitude. I give three different – ancient, early modern and late modern – accounts of this nexus, demonstrating how despotism continuously takes on new appearances. I conclude, in a counter-classical prism, how the classical nexus has evolved in modernity while the focus gradually shifted towards another triangulation: neo-despotism, use and dissent.