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Master Thesis Toplumsal Eleştiri Olarak Sinema ve Mizah(2023) Çam, Hazal Beril; Diken, BülentBu 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 muhafazakarMaster Thesis 'gölgeye Döndü ve Adını Söyledi': Harry Potter Filmlerinde Kahraman ve Gölge İlişkisi(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) Turgay, İpek; Diken, BülentBu çalışmada 21. yüzyılın fantastik sinemasının en önemli ve popüler örneklerinden olan Harry Potter filmlerinde kahraman ve gölge kavramları temsili incelenmiştir. Bu bağlamda kahraman ve gölgenin arketipsel özellikleriyle birbirlerinin aynısı olup olmadığına ve birbirleriyle olan ilişkisine bakılmıştır. Fantastik sinemada kahramanın yolculuğunun esas hikâye ekseni olup olmadığı temel soru olarak belirlenmiştir. Çalışmanın kuramsal temelinde Joseph Campbell’ın monomit kuramı esas alınarak, Harry Potter filmlerinin kahramanın yolculuğuna uyumlu olup olmadığına bakılmıştır. Bu kuramın aşamalarında kahramanın gölgesiyle olan ilişkisinin Harry Potter filmlerinde nasıl temsil edildiğine de bakılıp, serinin seçilen altı filmi kahraman – gölge kavramları esas alınarak, her filmin mitolojik bağlamlarda incelemeleri yapılmıştır. Bu kuramsal temeller film incelemeleri için yöntem olarak alınarak, filmlerin karakter ve anlatı analizleri yapılmış ve görsel karşılık olarak temsillerine bakılıp yorumlanmıştır. Filmlerden seçilen sahnelerin mitolojik hikayelerle benzerliğine bakılıp mitik tema üzerinden incelenmiştir. Sonuç bölümünde monomit anlatısının kahraman üzerinde karakter gelişimine nasıl etki ettiğine, iyi-kötü savaşının Harry Potter filmlerinin önermesinde nasıl bir tezahür ortaya çıkardığı incelenmiştir. Hala popülerliğini koruyan ve kült haline gelmiş Harry Potter evreni üzerinde, kahraman ve düşman ilişkisinin etkilerine bakılmıştır. Fantastik türde ve masalda temel amacın, monomitin nihai anlamı olan ölüp yeniden doğmak olmasının insanın ve sinema anlatısını etkilediği bulgularına varılmıştır.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 5"life Is a State of Mind' - on Fiction, Society and Trump(Routledge Journals, 2017) Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten BaggeThe 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.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 contextArticle Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 2The Collector's World(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020) Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten BaggeThe 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.Master Thesis Cultural Heritage - Its Digital Preservations, and Collateral Damage(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) Kahraman, Baran; Bülent DikenThe 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.Master Thesis Resistance Is an Inside Job: Liquid Surveillance Within the Context of Dispositif, Subject and Lines of Flight(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2020) Uçak, Mesut; Diken, BülentDespite 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.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.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.
