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Item Open Access Between being and becoming : identity, question of foreignness and the case of the Turkish house(2012) Şumnu, UmutHow were those narratives telling us about the Turkish House shaped? How did they come to contribute to the formation of our understanding of the history [and theory] of modern Turkish architecture? And respectively, how did they dominate our conception of modern Turkish identity? In light of these questions, this dissertation looks at the historiography of what is the so-called Turkish House as it emerged from Ottoman obscurity into the consciousness of the new Republic of Turkey, between the closing decades of the 19th century and the end of the 1930s. And, following the arguments of post-structuralist (architectural) theorists and the texts of the architectural historians in Turkey, this study intends to open up an ontological discussion around modern Turkish identity, and respectively around the Turkish House, as its architectural translation. Through looking at culturally and politically thick textual descriptions in journals, books, novels and stories; and visual representations in pictures, drawings, and architectural projects of the era, this study first of all underlines that idea/image of the Turkish House appeared and was formed as a response to the question of „foreignness‟. Then, from a de-constructive perspective, in order to challenge the term‟s de-facto usage, this study most productively brings the „foreign‟ voices of several architects - like Ernst Egli, Bruno Taut and Seyfi Arkan, who were practicing their designs in the late 1930s in Turkey- to the discussion, to reveal a more „dialogical‟, more „contingent‟, and more „pluralized‟ conception of the term modern, and to trace an alternative understanding of the Turkish House. Although in cultural and historical terms, the designs of these architects do not fit into the typological and stylistic principles of traditional dwelling forms, the works, which concentrates on not the „essential modern‟ character of the Turkish House, but the „inevitably national‟ character of modern house help us to position a more experimental, more spatial and more universalistic understanding of the Turkish House, rather than a stylistic, decorative, romantic, and culturally relativist one. In other words, through works, one can find a chance to shift from the morphological perspective of modern (and, of national); to show that the terms modern and national cannot be reduced into fixed architectural definitions; to portray a modern-national identity that is slippery, mobile, multiple, heterogeneous, incomplete, and subject to change; and more importantly, to surface an understanding of Turkish House not as a „thingness‟, as a being, but as a „movement‟, as a „becoming‟.Item Open Access Deconstructionist typography(1995) Tansel, SeprenThis thesis probes into how semiotics and deconstructionism on the one hand, technological progress on the other, have challenged typography. It begins with a short historical account of contemporary typography, focusing especially on modernist movement, and then discusses the consequences of digital revolution and the rising postmodern culture for contemporary type and t)q)ography. After explaining the structural approach to language and semiotics, it discusses critiques directed by poststructuralism and particularly deconstructionism. The influence of deconstructionism on typography is examined in detail, especially in the context of developments in digital technology. The contribution of deconstructionist typography is discussed in both graphetic and graphological aspects. How deconstructionist t)T)ography challenges and transforms the conventional dualities of typography, and consequently ofl'er new, open-ended forms of reading and writing, is demonstrated.Item Restricted Derrida for sociology? : a comment on Fuchs and Ward(1994) Agger, BenItem Open Access Figuring the orient : a discussion of orientalism within the context of Ferzan Özpetek's films(2004) Engin, EvrimThis study aims to inaugurate a thorough reading of two films by Ferzan Özpetek that employ Orient as their setting and major narrative element, Hamam (1997) and Harem Suare (1999), to examine their complicity with the Orientalist practices of representation. The discussion is informed by just as it responds to some of the crucial issues within postcolonial theory. Inspired by the deconstructive critique, the intrinsic relation between the Orientalist discourse and the general economy of Western subject formation has been elaborated through the analysis of the films. A three-fold approach has been pursued to be able to diagnose the latent Orientalism signing the films, since three constitutive moments authorize the attempt of giving a static form to the Orient. Therefore visual, aural and sexual registers of the Orientalist figuration has been explored.Item Restricted Gödel's theorem and postmodern theory(1995) Thomas, David WayneItem Open Access Hypertext and critial convergence(2000) Çokal, BeratToday, within the information and telecommunication technologies, internet technologies occupies the dominant role. Hypertext is the system that underlies many of the main digital multimedia with its capacity to hold different media like text, image and sound together by linkage. Upon this linkage capability of hypertext, some theorists call for the turning of an age towards a new digital democracy, by employing ideas of contemporary critical theorists and philosophers. This thesis examines the points of oonvergence in their claims, criticizes the way that they employ philosophy. Consequently it is shown that how these claims of convergence between critical theory and hypertext, turn out to be the convergence between liberal democratic ideals and digital democracy.Item Restricted Item Open Access Mapping the body: major conceptions of human embodiment from the West(1998) Ayaş, Ahmet MuratWithin the humanistic and social sciences of the western world, the human body, the state of being embodied, and the indelible interrelatedness of mind and the body have long been neglected in favour of the mind that is supposedly self-contained. The major reasons for that are claimed to be the philosophy of Cartesianism and mainstream Structuralism that foster the hegemony of dichotomous thought, which asserts that mind and the body are clearly distinct. Deconstructionist tools, however, have shown the impossibility of such an unequivocal distinction as well as pure totality and isolated presence. The main theme of this study is to map the major western conceptions that either implicitly or explicitly have developed notions of the body and embodiment which are in various fashions away from the constraints which have opposed the body to mind or which have considered the body as a closed, universal, nonhistorical biological entity. The notions that are developed in that way have the capacity to show that the body, as much as the psyche and the subject, is both cultural and historical product bearing peculiar natural qualities that position it as both an object and subject with powers of being affected and to affect others. The study concludes with a discussion on the significance and importance of the need to develop an adequate understanding of the body that eventually would enrich the ethical and political actions as well as the approach to art, design and architecture.Item Restricted New Criticism and Deconstructive Criticism, or What's New?(1986) Barzilai, ShuliItem Restricted The discipline of deconstruction(1992) Nealon, Jeffrey T.Item Restricted The politics of deconstruction(1986) Shaw, PeterItem Restricted The scholar who misread history(1991) Bradbury, MalcolmItem Restricted The sociology and paradoxes of deconstruction : a reply to agger(1994) Fuchs, StephanItem Open Access A theoretical discussion on framing: and the frame through deconstruction(1999) Bengi, Z. BegümThis study aims at investigating deconstruction, and how a theoretical discussion on framing may be arrived at through such an investigation. For this pupose, some of the concepts such as ‘logocentricm’, ‘differance’, ‘iterability’, and ‘arche-writing’, which had been named as such by Jacques Derrida, are traced through his related texts, as one possible thread among others, and are concidered as that from which a theoretical conclusion on ‘framing’ can be extracted.Item Restricted Item Open Access Writing culture: postmodernism and ethnography(Sage Publications, 2006) Mutman, M.In a radical critical gesture, postmodern ethnography emphasizes the concepts of writing, narrative and dialogue against a merely scientific recording of facts. Interestingly, it does not question an outsider's accessibility to cultural space. Instead, ethnographic knowledge is grounded on a philosophical claim on the limited nature of native knowledge itself and is rearticulated by an inclusive gesture which involves the native voice in an authentic expression of diversity. This is a redemptive gesture which fails to interrogate the limit of knowledge and reproduces the conventional ethnographic demand that the other should speak up. Following a deconstructive reading, the article suggests that the ethnographic text should instead open itself to the limit and should remark the radical loss it implies as an ethical opening of and questioning by the other, because this is the limit where the name of 'Man' is inscribed as the name of the native informant. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications.