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Architecture as a technology of framing experience : camera obscura, camp, and the confessional
(2009) Uysal, V. Şafak
Throughout architectural history, the problematic of experience is mostly addressed within the confines of either deterministic or phenomenological models. Bound as they are, however, to the transcendental coordinates of a founding structure and a selfcontained subject figure, neither one of these models seems to provide us with the necessary tools of engaging with the transgressive aspects of experience in general or architectural experience in particular. Beginning with the problem of how architecture can be said to effect the experience of its subjects, the dissertation aims at gaining an insight into the constructive capacity and functioning of architecture as a technology of framing, whereby the subject's relation to environment, to other subjects, and to oneself can be addressed. In order to do this, the author first traces the constituent elements of a so-called “science of experience,” an experiontology, throughout the historiographic work of Michel Foucault. Developing a composite framework as such, which facilitates a historico-critical analysis of the work of architecture in relation to the formation and transformation of experiential structures, the author thus identifies the logic of experience as a process of desubjectification at work in and through the triplicate domains of epistemology, politics, and ethics. Once the terms of this logic are tested and further enhanced through the analyses of three environmental formations – namely, the camera obscura, the camp, and the confessional – what is arrived at is a veritable relationship between architecture and experience in the neighborhood of the categories of error, resistance, and interiority of the self. The result is a recognition of architecture as an art of organization of bodily encounters, in accordance with which the architectural frame becomes the condition of possibility for the production and reproduction of novel corporealities.
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A critique of the international criminal court : The Making of the “International Community” through international criminal prosecutions
(2015-07) Gözde, Turan
It is not “the state” but a more diffuse and amorphous power which revitalizes the twin legacies of the state of containment and disciplinary supervision of problematic populations at the global level. The International Criminal Court (ICC) as the current leading institution of both formulating and disseminating the international criminal law discourse is not only part and parcel of this progressively evolving global power but also a constituent agent as well as a product of the so-called international community. One aim of this study is to understand how international crimes become salient in the public sphere and what sort of techniques and procedures are applied to prevent and punish them. The effort of creating and developing more detailed and organized webs and networks to deal with the supposedly rising problem of global insecurity in connection to international crimes is subsequently associated with conditions of global political economy facilitating the establishment and operation of the ICC. Notwithstanding the complicated nature of discursive power enabling resistance besides subjectification, the invasive and deepening support given to the ICC within the framework of the current neoliberal discourse brings about a detrimental vision with regard to the international criminal law discourse. A critique of the ICC drawing on both Foucauldian and Gramscian thought projects the intensifying inequalities through the lenses of the international criminal law discourse embedded in a broader neoliberal discourse.
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Türkiye İşçi Partisi’nin iki yerel gazetesi: sömürücülüğe karşı savaş ve sömürüye yumruk
(Bilkent University, 2020) Acar, Çağla Neslisu; Çetin, Efe; Orhan, Arda; Güvendik, Mehmet Tan; Ağva, Ata Altay
Türkiye İşçi Partisi 1965’de Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi’nde aktif olarak yer almasından sonra yerel halka daha hızlı ve etkili ulaşmak amacıyla Zonguldak ve Trabzonda “Sömürücülüğe Karşı Savaş” ve “Sömürücüye Yumruk” adında yerel gazeteler çıkarmıştır. “Sömürücüye Yumruk”, Zonguldak’ta 1967-1971 yılları arasında faaliyet göstermiş ve toplamda 33 sayı çıkarmıştır. “Sömürücülüğe Karşı Savaş”, Trabzon’da 1965-1971 yılları arasında faaliyet göstermiş ve toplamda 91 sayı çıkarmıştır. Dönemin siyasi koşullarına paralel olarak bu gazeteler yerel halkın TİP’in meclisteki faaliyetleri ve genel siyasi çizgisi hakkında bilgilendirilmesi ve bilinçlenmesini hedeflemiştir.