The Despotic Imperative: From Hiero To the Circle

dc.contributor.authorDiken, Bülent
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-24T14:17:44Z
dc.date.available2020-12-24T14:17:44Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentFakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Radyo, Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractThe article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle. A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its explicit focus on the economic element in the nexus of despotism, economy, and voluntary servitude. Discussing this nexus in an ancient context, the article turns to The Circle, a dystopic novel from 2013, which elaborates on how the attempt at creating a transparent society results in the perversion of democracy to the point where a despotism fueled by economization and voluntary servitude becomes immediately evident. Notwithstanding the significant differences between the two perceptions of despotism that proliferate in Hiero and The Circle, their shared focus on the nexus of despotism, economy, and voluntary servitude testifies to an interesting case of convergence in divergence. Offering an account of this continuity, the article ends with reflecting on this nexus itself, arguing that it should be rethought in a new way today. The concept of use is suggested as a key concept for such reconsideration.en_US
dc.identifier.citation0
dc.identifier.doi10.1215/17432197-7515042en_US
dc.identifier.endpage201en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-2197en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-2197
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85073295389en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage184en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3661
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7515042
dc.identifier.volume15en_US
dc.institutionauthorDiken, Bülenten_US
dc.institutionauthorDiken, Bülent
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalCultural Politicsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectDespotismen_US
dc.subjectEconomyen_US
dc.subjectFreedomen_US
dc.subjectUseen_US
dc.subjectVoluntary servitudeen_US
dc.titleThe Despotic Imperative: From Hiero To the Circleen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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