Culture, Art and Memory
Cinema, music, literature, theatre, history and memorials.
35 posts
October 2026
The Reşit Kibar Case and the Chain Behind the Trigger
Gunman in Custody, Owner of the Gun Free, Company a Witness, Villager a Defendant
Who Spins the Cocoon?
Altın Koza's Artificial-Intelligence Short-Film Competition and the Class of the Image
September 2026
Reading Deniz Göktaş's Defense with Young Comrades, Point by Point
Four Sentences, Eighty-Eight Days, One Class Question
The Deniz Göktaş Case and the Class of Humor
Eighty-Eight Days, Four Sentences, Two Convictions: The Full Text of the Defense and a Class Reading
Neşet Ertaş: A Parting, A Poverty, A Class
From Kırşehir to Gurbet, from Bağbaşı to Bozlak: The Story of an Abdal and of a Dispossessed Anatolia
Philosophers and Artificial Intelligence
Reading Philosophy's Great Questions with Class
The Melodious Heart: Telling Ruhi Su to Young Comrades
From the Orphans' Home to Sansaryan Han: The State That Raised a Patriot and Then Punished Him
Víctor Jara, Chile, and the Class Legacy of Latin Resistance
To Young Comrades on the Fifty-Third Anniversary of His Death — A Singer, a Coup, a Continent, and What Remains for Us
From the Ugly King to Yol: Reading Yılmaz Güney Through Class
An Introduction to Yılmaz Güney for Young Comrades, on the Forty-Second Anniversary of His Death
To Look Far Is to Look Into the Past
On NASA's Roman Telescope, the Budget of Science, and the Property of Knowledge
August 2026
Our Education Dossier Is Out: Whose School Is It?
Our New Education Dossier Is Out: 205 pages, 217 chapters. On Taking the School Back from the Market, Religious Communities, and the Algorithm
Bedahet Tosun — How Is a Life to Be Lived?
Remembering Bedahet Tosun on the Second Anniversary of His Death
Welcome, Metin Turan!
Since Metin Turan Went Inside: Technology, Class, and Resistance
Bertolt Brecht and the Stage of Class Struggle
The Currency of the Brechtian Method for Young Comrades on the Seventieth Anniversary of His Death
July 2026
Human Action on the Sheer Slopes of Caria: A Materialist Journey to Amos
From Rhodian Hegemony to Capitalist Commodification
From Mythos to Praxis: Materialist Philosophy on the Aegean Shores and Humanity's Path to Liberation
Labor in the Mortar of Marble Columns: Materialist Philosophy and Study Routes in the Aegean for Young Comrades
Adnan Yücel's Dialectical Legacy and Unbreakable Social Consciousness
Against Postmodern Illusions: The Role of the Organic Intellectual, Revolutionary Discipline, and Philosophical Duties for Young Comrades
A Critical and Epistemological Inquiry into Christopher Nolan's Odysseus
What Does Nolan's Cinema Aim For? A Dialectical Scalpel into Today's Perception Management from the Future Perspective of the Twenty-Second Century
From Memory to Praxis, a Lifetime: Understanding the Revolutionary Subject After Ahmet Telli
A Future Woven in Verses: Ahmet Telli and the Class Power of Aesthetics
The Deniz Göktaş Detention — Dialectical Laughter and an Epistemic Barricade
The Anatomy of Intimidation Policies in Turkey and the Foundations of a Dialectical Human Rights Struggle
Asım Bezirci — The Undying Fire of Criticism and Class Struggle
From the Reality of Matter to the Ranks of the Class; A Life Woven with Science, Patience, and Revolutionary Joy
Truth Seeping Through the Smoke: The Class, Sociological, and Political Anatomy of the Sivas Massacre
A Historical Materialist Analysis of Reaction, State Complicity, and Systematic Discrimination Against Alevis in Turkey from 2 July 1993 to the Present
June 2026
The Historical Materialist Evolution of Political Humor in Turkey and the Deniz Göktaş Phenomenon
The Aesthetics of Class Madness and Insecurity
From Tatar Ramazan to Class Cinema — Kadir İnanır's Class and Dialectical Legacy
A Dialectical March from the Lumpen-Feudal Codes of Kadirizm to the Collective Consciousness of Class Cinema
The Brotherhood of the Cosmos and the Red Dawn: The Human of the Future in the Footsteps of Nâzım Hikmet
From the Darkness of Capitalism to the Conquest of the Stars: For Tomorrows Without Exploitation and Without Borders, on the 63rd Anniversary of the Great Revolutionary Poet's Death
May 2026
The Radical Ontology of Youth: Building the "Human of the Future" in the Light of May 19
From the Rupturing Spirit of May 19 and Neoliberal Anxiety to Building a Collective Dawn
Algorithmic Crystallization and Aesthetic Liberation: The Future of Music and Art in the Age of the General Intellect
The Crisis of Ownership in AI Art and the Dialectic of Creativity in the Human of the Future
Beyond the Black Mirror, the Great Refactor: From Dystopia's Objection to the Epic Construction of a Collective Dawn
The Great Compilation Age of a Humanity That Refuses Submission
Dreamlike Frequencies: The Moment Data Turns Into Poetry
A Weekly Integration for Your Mental Renaissance
From May 6th to the Future: Full Independence, Scientific Freedom, Organized Labor
Building Homo Commonans in the Shadow of the Three Saplings