naming things / adlandırmak (teztaze)

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
— Albert Camus

it is getting difficult to nema concepts in relation to my practice. i cannot even call it art. it is something...

and i believe that i will not call them "mistakes" or "urban errors". calling something a mistake is accepting that there is something that is proper-flawless...

then how shall one call it?

the fake tomb, the lady who is a middle-person in the cucumöber business; finding beuatiful cucumber only if she tells the name of god a lot of times...

the left over things in istanbul. left over big stuff. but not as big as a building or as a field. without showing you a picture, not very possible to explain.

like a cement block. undefined.

undefined things?

like ufo?

earthly ufo's

the absurd maybe?

the daily absurd?

need mor time on that...

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"ne olabilir.. yanlislik yerine ne olabilir... ayrik otu, purtuklu, basibozuk, asimetrik, tekinsiz, sapmis olusu icinde barindiran birsey. ama bence absurd degil cunku absurd yabancilasmayi icinde barindiriyor.. kara mizah bir tarafi var.
kara mizah vurgusundan cok daha katmanli (iki yana, ileriye ve geriye dogru katmanli) bir kelimeye ihtiyac var.
'yanlisliklarin' oldugu kent, inanilmazliklarin, fantastiklerin oldugu bir kent aslinda, neredeyse..bir bakima. suprizlere ve yaraticiliga meyilli, absurdlugun kara mizahina, ve cikissiz dalgaciligina saplanmis degil. absurd'un temelinde ikinci dunya savasi var, camus'nun edebiyatinda bu olmasi normal ama senin calismana uymuyor bence, cunku sen tikanip kalmayan bir hale, aksine o halin icindeki yaraticiliga ve devam edebilirlige, yasamini surdurebilir potansiyele dikkat cekiyorsun. karamsar birsey yok hic senin bakis acinda. aslinda bu tam da kentteki o akil disi hallere ragmen insanlarin direnir bicimde hayatta kalmalari dedigin sey. absurd ise, kavramin tarihsel olarak ortaya cikisi nedeniyle olmaz yani bence. II. dunya savasi doneminde ortaya cikan dusunce hareketi cok guclu ama artik cok eski bugunu ele almak icin.
bak simdi aklima geldi: TUHAF a ne dersin?
tuhafliklarin oldugu kent....................."
s.

üzerinde şekiller bulunan kırmızı bir bez/ a red cloth with shapes on it

"city by mistake"... i decided to also go through some news. some situations that were born out of a mistake. but exposed the level of governement absence or government oppression. i am not sure how to call it. either government or hegemony. hegemony might be a better word.

wiki: Geographic hegemony

In The Production of Space (1992), Henri Lefebvre posits that geographic space is not a passive locus of social relations, but that it is trialectical — constituted by mental space, socialspace, and physical space — hence, hegemony is a spatial process influenced by geopolitics. In the ancient world, hydraulic despotism was established in the fertile river valleys ofEgypt, China, and Mesopotamia. In China, during the Warring States Era, the Qin State created the Chengkuo Canal for geopolitical advantage over its local rivals. In Eurasia, successor state hegemonies were established in the Middle East, using the sea (Greece) and the fringe lands (Persia, Arabia). European hegemony moved west-wards, to Rome, then north-wards, to the Holy Roman Empire of the Franks. At the Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom established their hegemonic centres; in due course, geography dictated that the political poles then moved to the United States and the Soviet Union; to wit, geography can determine the long- and short-life of an hegemony, e.g. China's,Pax Sinica and the Roman Empire's Pax Romana in contrast to those of the Mongol Empire and Imperial Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; (see Edward Soja, David Harvey, and Chantal Mouffe).

http://milli-tarih.blogspot.com/2010/07/ne-yaptn-hatice-teyze.html

15 Temmuz 2010 Perşembe

Ne yaptın Hatice teyze?

15 Temmuz 1969 tarihli Cumhuriyet gazetesinin haberine göre Kocamustafapaşa'daki bir balkonda çamaşır ipinde çamaşırlarla birlikte asılı orak-çekiçli Sovyet bayrağı “çevrede hayret uyandırmış”. Siyasi polisin gözaltına aldığı ev sahibi 67 yaşındaki Hatice K., ABD Konsolosluğu'nda ütücülük yaptığını, oradan kendisine verilen kullanılmış eşyalar arasından çıkan orak-çekiçli bayrağı tanımadığını söylemiş. Hatice K., “üzerinde şekiller bulunan kırmızı bir bez” diye tanımladığı bayrağı yıkayıp kestikten sonra kilim yapmayı düşündüğünü söylemiş.

Gramsci used the term hegemony to denote the predominance of one social class over others (e.g. bourgeois hegemony). This represents not only political and economic control, but also the ability of the dominant class to project its own way of seeing the world so that those who are subordinated by it accept it as 'common sense' and 'natural'. Commentators stress that this involves willing and active consent. Common sense, suggests Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, is 'the way a subordinate class lives its subordination' (cited in Alvarado & Boyd-Barrett 1992: 51).

However, unlike Althusser, Gramsci emphasizes struggle. He noted that 'common sense is not something rigid and immobile, but is continually transforming itself' (Gramsci, cited in Hall 1982: 73). As Fiske puts it, 'Consent must be constantly won and rewon, for people's material social experience constantly reminds them of the disadvantages of subordination and thus poses a threat to the dominant class... Hegemony... posits a constant contradiction between ideology and the social experience of the subordinate that makes this interface into an inevitable site of ideological struggle' (Fiske 1992: 291). References to the mass media in terms of an ideological 'site of struggle' are recurrent in the commentaries of those influenced by this perspective. Gramsci's stance involved a rejection of economism since it saw a struggle for ideological hegemony as a primary factor in radical change. (daniel chandler / marxist media theory)

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism10.html

Courage is indispensible / russian dance revisited

Hannah Arendt at the University of Chicago, undated.

Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

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"Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake."
between past and future; arendt

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documentary / the filmmakler's view / how it comes through the unseen, the invisible

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"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."
-hannah arendt

TITLE: The Specialist (Un Spécialiste) Portrait of a Modern Criminal

YEAR: 1999
DIR/PROD: Eyal Sivan
COUNTRY: France/Israel
LANGUAGE: Hebrew and German with English ST
TIME: 128 minutes

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Tom Waits' "Russian Dance" is played over the closing credits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypH_fNDdKio

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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

hannah arendt

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"Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."
from the HUMAN CONDITION

tez / error

farklı adresler yerine tagleme mantığı ile çalışmayı deneyeceğim bu blogda; tezle i,lgili olanları tez / thesis / ph.d olarak tagleyerek... nasıl teagleyeceğim bile bulanık. ... call me "tez" ya da tabi ki : teztaze!!!! teztaze.wordpress.com/ ve teztaze.blogspot.com/ grounded - groundless: aslında, kaldırım serisi, "grounded"'dan çok "groundless" hep bir "order" - "disorder"; deficiency - defo söz konusu işlerimde ve belki'ler:) nasip - kısmet bile girdi işin işine işlere tekrar bakıp tezi tez yazma zamanı... şahane biriyle tanıştım; tez konusunda hemen kafamda şimşekkler çaktı ve tekrar odaklandım Main Entry: error Part of Speech: noun Definition: mistake; wrong Synonyms: X, absurdity, bad job, blunder, boner, boo-boo,delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure,fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas,flaw, glitch, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse,misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation,misconception, miscue, misdeed, misjudgment,mismanagement, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight,screamer, screw-up, sin, slight, slip, slipup,solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass,untruth, wrongdoing Antonyms: accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth,validity

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