Browsing İletişim Fakültesi by Author "Diken, Bülent"
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The collector's world
Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020)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 ... -
The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle
Diken, Bülent (Duke University Press, 2019)The 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 ... -
"Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump
Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (Routledge Journals, 2017)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 ... -
Migration the sociology of mobility and critical theory
Diken, Bülent (Taylor & Francis, 2018)Being one of my PhD supervisors John’s influence on my intellectual life has been decisive in many respects. However his work has inspired me especially in relation to three fields: immigration the sociology of critique ... -
Money Religion and Symbolic Exchange in Winter Sleep
Diken, Bülent (Berghahn Journals, 2017)Winter 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 ... -
Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism
Diken, Bülent (Sage Publications, 2021)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 ...