by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
This article critically engages with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, focusing on the relationship between colonial logics and biological engineering that understands the natural world as property. First, it discusses the connections between the film and the...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
Neoliberal tahayyül nedir ve onu oluşturan temel özellikler nelerdir? Neoliberal tahayyül alternatif gelecek tasarımlarının önünü nasıl kapatır? Bu makale, neoliberalizmin politik tahayyülünü kavramsallaştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Neoliberalizmin politik tahayyülü,...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
It’s impossible to discuss the recent Blade Runner 2049 without touching on its dystopian aesthetics. The film is a contradiction of fascinating aesthetics within a world of decay, the gloomy vision of cyberpunk. Yet, one must not limit the discussion of dystopian...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
Caught between the seemingly contradictory imageries of particularity and universality, ‘European identity’ could in fact be presumed but as a shorthand for ontological anxiety. The (‘euro-‘) centric ontology that it denotes is marked by an...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
The coronavirus pandemic offers a rare opportunity to critique the biopolitical argument and a chance to reveal the life-and-death nexus, which is often clandestine in its operation. In this context, death rather than life is “put to work” under a biopolitical mode of...
