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- Derleme MakaleAçık Erişim2023Bilim kurgu sinemasında dünya dışı yaşam tasvirleri
Demir, Sertac Timur; Çınar, Mehmet Ali
Dünya hâlâ çözülmemiş sayısız gizemle doludur. Bu durum insanın bitmek bilmeyen merak ve araştırma tutkusunun da özüdür. Elbette bu gizemler yalnızca dünyaya değil; Dünya dışına da dairdir. Bunun sonucu olarak insan yüzünü özellikle varılmamış uzaklara ve keşfedilmemiş uzaya çevirmektedir. İnsanlık tarihi boyunca hep merak konusu olan atmosfer ötesinin gizemi, bilim kurgu sinemasının odağındadır. Gelinen tarihsel dönemeç itibarıyla bilim kurgu sinemasının Dünya dışına dair tasvirleri yapımcının kolektif zihninde oluşan fanteziler bütünü olmaktan çıkarak gitgide bilimsel çalışmaların projeksiyonuna dönüşmektedir. Başka bir deyişle, bilim kurgu düşsel alana bilimsel bir misyon yüklerken; bilimi de sınırları müphem bir ilerlemeye tabi tutmaktadır. Sinemanın Dünya dışı yaşamla ilgili tasvirleri ütopik veya hayali olmaktan çıkmakta ve hızla bilimsel değer kazanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada bilim kurgu sineması bir gelecek projektörü olarak görülmekte ve filmler bu yaklaşımla analiz edilmektedir. Filmlerdeki tasvirlerin sinemada ve bugünün dünyasında nasıl karşılık bulduğu ve geleceğin hangi olasılıklar taşıdığı soruları bu çalışmanın temel çerçevesidir. Bu amaçla makalede analize konu bilim kurgu filmleri zaman, mekân ve teknoloji bağlamlarıyla ele alınmaktadır.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2023Afet Medyası ve Medya Afeti: 6 Şubat Kahramanmaraş Depreminin Anımsattıkları
Demir, Sertac Timur
- MakaleAçık Erişim2023The Culture of Living on Screen and the Audience-Human as Screenshot
Demir, Sertac Timur
This paper asserts the idea that everyday life is screened while screens are humanised. As a matter of fact, the screens, which once consisted of detached mechanisms limited to certain places and positioned in front of the audience, at this point, surround the spaces and people. Televisions, mobile phones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers, automobile screens, smart technologies, and flashing billboards are reshaping the connections of modern individuals with the space they live in, the time they feel, the relationships they develop, and their own beings. So much so that the screens that are connected to almost all devices and organize daily life entirely cease to be a platform for viewing images and turn into a kind of spectator's eye. In this regulation, the modern human performs many vital acts from working to having fun, from learning to experiencing, from adapting to resisting not through the screen as it once was, but now as the screen. This screen culture, which basically imitates and perhaps targets the eye, has become one of the norms of digital life. The theoretical framework of this research, which tries to see both the premises of the rapid transformation in question and to trace the ambiguous course, consists of the works of pioneering thinkers such as Gunther Anders, Jean Baudrillard and Byung-Chul Han. For this purpose, in this qualitative study, sociological film analysis is carried out through the episode of Fifteen Million Merits (2011) of the series Black Mirror, one of the Sci-Fi examples that have become very popular in recent years. This episode is notable in terms both of embodying and of nurturing discussions about the screen society.
- MakaleYalnız künye2022Aygıt-İnsan, İnsansız-Yaşam: Teknolojinin Gölgesinde Bedenin, Duyuların ve Hafızanın Yeniden-Tasarımı
Demir, Sertac Timur
Bu çalışma tekno-sosyal çağın ilişkilerine olabildiğince gerçekçi perspektiften baktığı varsayılan bilim kurgu türü üzerinden eleştirel bir tartışma yapmayı hedeflemektedir. Bu tartışmanın odağında bedene, hafızaya ve duyulara iyiden iyiye nüfuz eden teknolojik aygıtlar ve onların insani nitelikler üzerindeki dramatik izdüşümleri vardır. Makalenin argümanına göre ayırt etmek, merhamet göstermek, reddetmek, hata yapmak, dalgın olmak, görmezden gelmek ve unutmak gibi insana özgü vasıfların yerini gündelik yaşamı otomasyon kültüründe işleten, sürekli uyanık ve dinamik tekno-sistemler almaktadır. İnsanı mekanik akışa eklemleyen bu kültürde şiddet de sterilize edilmek suretiyle belirsizleştirilmektedir. Aygıtlar insan bedenini çevreleyen dış dünyaya değil; bizatihi bedene entegre ve bilinç dışına dönük şekilde tasarımlanmaktadır. Özgürlük istencini de bulanıklaştıran bu coşkulu ve hızlı eğilim, uyumak dahil neredeyse tüm alışkanlıkları ve ayrıca duyuları —özellikle de gözü— yeniden formüle etmektedir. Bunun sonucunda bir zamanlar tefekkür ve tahayyülün merkezinde olan duyu(ş)lar teknik olarak araçsallaşmakta ve aygıtların hizmetinde pasif eklentiler halini almaktadır. Bu nitel çalışmada söz konusu yaklaşımlar, son yıllarda oldukça popüler olan Black Mirror dizisinin Senin Tüm Geçmişin ve Acımadan Öldürmek bölümleri ışığında sosyolojik film analizi yöntemiyle incelenmektedir. Bu yöntem filmleri sanat alanına temas eden teknik ve estetik unsurlarından ziyade toplumsal yaşamın yansıması, yorumu veya temsili olarak ele almaktadır. Bu makalede odaklanılan iki bölüm de bu açıdan modern kültürün göstergelerinden olan teknolojik inovasyonların özellikle insan bedeni, hafızası ve duyuları üzerindeki belirleyiciliğini tamamlayıcı tavırla izah etmesi bakımından dikkat çekicidir. Çalışmanın teorik çerçevesini ise modern tekno-kültürel değişimi sosyolojik yaklaşımın eleştirel penceresinden analiz eden Günther Anders, Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Virilio ve Byung-Chul Han gibi düşünürler oluşturmaktadır.
- Derleme MakaleAçık Erişim2022The narrative in biography documentaries and construction of the portrait
Demir, Sertac Timur; Hidiroglu, Irfan; Tuğcu, Muhammed Said
Biography began with keeping records of people whose remarkable positions and stories in history. Biography usually takes place in the field of literature and history in academia, but over time it has also been involved in cinema studies. Although there are many academic studies on documentary cinema, no significant study has been found that focuses on the types of documentaries and focuses on biography documentary. Considering that many documentaries are biographically based, it can be claimed that this article tries to fill an important deficiency. Biographies have an ontological value especially for societies that has strong stories and ancient memories. Therefore, in this study, the distinctive importance of biographical documentaries, which are an essential part of oral culture and heritage transmission, is emphasised. With this article, discussions, inferences and suggestions are made about the importance of biography documentaries by focusing on the subjects of biography, biography history, biography documentary, biographical subject, portrait construction and narrative in biography documentaries. The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature on biographical documentaries, to illustrate the texture of biographical documentaries in particular, and to draw an intellectual and actional road and concept map for researchers or field experts who are interested in documentary film.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2022Technologized Life as an Imagining of Eternality from Antenatal to Post-Mortem
Demir, Sertac Timur
In this article, everyday technology, which tends to expand without limits, is discussed in the context of contemporary practices that start from antenatal to death and that correspond to the desire for immortality of modern man. For this purpose, it is examined how technology intervenes in life and death through the episodes of Arkangel, Right Be Back, and San Junipero in Black Mirror, the popular science fiction series. In this study, the current social and human dilemmas that appear in the narratives are discussed, without ignoring the technical analysis of the series. In this respect, gene based medical studies that reformat the body, smart and synthetic technologies that add a new dimension to digital control and surveillance, contemporary medical and technoscientific assumptions about death and immortality are debated. The theoretical framework of this article consists of theoreticians such as Jean Baudrillard, David Le Breton and Byung Chul Han who consider that the change in social structure and relations is mainly driven by technology and critically approach this unavoidable trend. According to the main argument and inference of this research, technologies that can descend to every part of the body are no longer just the comfort and convenience extensions of daily lite, and they affect almost all ontological processes between existence and extinction by being articulated with human destiny. However, this global trend is also the loss of the natural and the real for the modern characters who are deprived of the human conditions such as pain and death that make life precious.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2021Social Media and Lynch Culture
Demir, Sertac Timur; Özcan, Ali
In this article, it is argued that social media, which enters daily life with the promises of freedom of expression, unhindered communication and unlimited sharing, but adapts nearly all relationships and experiences to itself in a short time, has evolved into a medium of mass hatred and uncanny. It is also claimed that the users are an inevitable part of the global network in the shadow of this sharp transformation, which appears as the rise of the lynching culture, whose causes are virtual and the consequences are real. Accordingly, contrary to the illusory abstraction in this medium, the digital traces that users leave behind are permanent and indelible. For this reason, people who were once the subject of collective lynching by taking refuge in the anonymity of the masses can be the target of the same masses at any time. In other words, in this cyber-space, when the texts are taken out of their context; when the conjuncture changes or when personal data is hacked in an unpredictable manner, the whole course of events that was once considered perfect and smooth can suddenly reverse. This ambiguous situation is the unaccounted reflection and widespread trend of the mass and social media, which produces its own notion of mass, beyond the pre-defined justifications. In social media, users are the hostage of each post they make and each website they visit. In this research, this problematic is analysed through the episode of Hated in the Nation of the popular science fiction series Black Mirror and in the context of virtual lynching, digital masses and mobile technologies. The framework of this interdisciplinary study, which is based on digital humanities approaches, is structured around the theories of thinkers such as Zygmunt Bauman, Jean Baudrillard and Byung Chul-Han who offer stimulating perspectives on the issue.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2021A Sociological Criticism of the Global Health Discourse: The Pandemic as a Metaphor of Contemporary Culture
Demir, Sertac Timur
This article argues that a clear correlation exists between disease and the prevailing social functioning. In this respect, every disease can be seen as a metaphor for the age and society in which it emerges. In other words, every period carries a form of disease that bears traces of the dominant lifestyle. This study approaches the epidemic as a kind of sociological projection in the context of studying modern culture and continues the discussion along the lines critically opened by Susan Sontag (2005). lust as Sontag examined disease as a metaphor, this article debates the discourses on masks, social distancing, and hygiene within the scope of COVID-19 along a specific sociological axis around the concepts of speed, control, information, hyper-medicalization, and death as the dominant indicators of contemporary culture. For this purpose, the study seeks answers to the following questions through the leading social theorists of the field such as Bauman, Baudrillard, Turner, Furedi and Chul-Han: How does the global epidemic and the current health discourse embodied in it appear within the sociological context? What thoughts and tendencies emerge when examining the pandemic portrait as a social metaphor? For example, what kind of relationship exists between hygiene and cultural fears; among distance, social isolation, and avoidance; and between masks and the superficial idea of death concealed behind quantification? Undoubtedly, the pandemic is a critical breaking point in the history of modern medicine and has forced not only global health practices but also many value judgments to both paradoxically be accepted and questioned.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2020"Ahlat ağacı”nın gölgesinde, kentin ve taşranın ötesinde: modern gündelik yaşamda bıkkınlık ruh halinin yükselişi
Demir, Sertac Timur
Bu çalışma modern kültürün bir uzantısı ve gündelik yaşamın olağan birdışavurumuna dönüşen bıkkınlık (blasé attitude) sorunsalına odaklanmaktadır. İlk kezGeorg Simmel tarafından daha çok kent yaşamına özgü mekânsal bir durum olaraktanımlanan bıkkınlık, bu makalede ise kentin sınırlarına indirgenemeyen genel birinsanlık durumu olarak ele alınmaktadır. Melankoliye kıyasla yıkıcı doku taşıyanbıkkınlık tavrı, bu çalışmada Türk yönetmen Nuri Bilge Ceylan yönettiği Ahlat Ağacı(2018) filminin karakterleri üzerinden tartışılmaktadır. Bir yöntem olarak bu sinemasalizdüşüm, gri, depresif ve karamsar bir duygulanım olan bıkkınlık meselesini yetkin birşekilde inceleme imkânı sunmaktadır. Ceylan’ın filmlerinden görüldüğü üzere,modern birey artık yalnızca öteki ile değil; kendi varlıkları, vicdanları ve verilideğerlerle karşı karşıyadır. Dahası, taraflar arasında açık bir hesaplaşma da söz konusudeğildir. Bıkkınlığı kent ve taşra kültürlerinin ötesinde bireysel düzeyde tecrübe edilenbir toplumsal vakıa olarak inceleyen bu makale, bıkkınlığa temelde bir modern insankatastrofisi olarak yaklaşmaktadır
- MakaleAçık Erişim2020Modern Man in Techno-Scientific Progressivism and Nostalgic-Developmentalism Dilemma
Demir, Sertac Timur
This article interrogates the human crisis of the modern age with a comparative and synthesist approach. Indeed, in the hands of techno-scientific progressivism that has been accelerated since the industrial revolution and the nostalgic-developmentalism that is provoked by the progressivism, the central issue in crisis is not humanity; but man himself. Moreover, this crisis, which encircles daily life entirely, is not merely epistemological, also ontological. Perhaps the most valid question of the day for the modern individual who is torn between techno-scientific progressivism that glorifies speed, technique, method, invention and externality, and the doctrines of nostalgicaldevelopmentalism that prioritise the past, memory, mystical orientation and internality, is perhaps to remain human. While Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), one of the two philosophical films subject to analysis in the article, refers to such a progressivism; and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) visualises developmentalism. Beyond a science-fiction analysis, this study, which approaches both positions critically, aims to focus on the crucial questions that become evident in the films with the answers of significant thinkers such as Paul Chesterton, Gaston Bachelard, Gunther Anders, Ivan Illich, Lewis Mumford, Zygmunt Bauman and Y. Noah Harari. Besides, as a proposition, it can be stated that today sci-fi movies -even the most extraordinary ones- have ironically turned into one of the most authentic projectors in making sense of the fantastic world we live in.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2018Old Concepts, New Contents: The City, Cinema and the Stranger
Demir, Sertac Timur
This study is a cinematic portrait not of the real, but essentially of the updated Istanbul. In the case of the strangers of cinematic Istanbul, the most strategic, useful, as well as the most difficult step for updating the city's image is to shift the axis from its centres, touristic places, familiar characters, common values and usual events to its corners, secondary places and characters, minimalist conditions, ambivalent values and current changes. For this purpose this study analyzes five films as sociological testimonies without touching upon their details but by focusing on their references: Politiki Kouzina/Bir Tutam Baharat/A Touch of Spice (Tassos Boulmetis, 2003), Koprudekiler/Men on the Bridge (Asli Ozge, 2009), Kac Para Kac/A Run for Money (Reha Erdem, 1999), Uzak/Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002), and 11'e 10 Kala/10 to 11 (Pelin Esmer, 2009). These films, which constitute the framework of this research, are breaking points of modern Istanbul's social and urban history and of changing form of strangers.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2017Reconsideration of Orhon Inscriptions in the context of Cultural Memory of Turkish Society: The Body and Memory of Stone
Demir, Sertac Timur
This paper aims to deal with the Orhon Inscriptions among the concepts and debates on cultural memory for the purpose of 'remembering', 'adaptation', 'updating' and 'refunctionalising' through the television documentary Time Traveller: Following the Steps of the Turks. What do the inscriptions tell us about today? What does deducing, analysing and developing a methodology for this provide to the national heritage under the titles of past, identity, belonging and memory? In this article, accordingly, cultural memory questions and suggestions are offered through the Orhon Inscriptions. Documents and documentaries, without doubt, are instruments of interpreting the past and projecting the future. This research is conceptual as well as methodological. In this respect, a minimal cultural memory glossary is fictionalised and thus a sort of conceptual ground is generated.
- MakaleYalnız künye2016Disease and Death in the Modern Culture: On Now and Eternity
Demir, Sertac Timur
This paper is basically about nowism as a representation of modernity rather than a temporal fragment, about cancer as philosophical reference rather than as a biological illness, and about death as constructive value rather than as a destructive experience. All these representation-loaded concepts are dealt with through the story of Tessa, the protagonist in the film Now is Good (2012). In the liquid modernity, on the one hand nowist orientations, tendencies and acts are wryly reduced to a cliche: Carpe diem (seize the day) and on the other hand temporal uncertainty of death implies the essential principle of memento mori (remember you will die) or Mutu qabla an tamutu (die before you die). The now is, as a worldview beyond a temporality, not merely good, but perhaps the God of the modern society. However, deadly cancer, which is an uninvited guest, nullifies this modern doctrine that commercializes the now as eternity and immortality itself. Cancer that marks death and the sense of chaos what cancer stirs are antithesis and perhaps antidote of the liquid modernity. This paper, for the very reason, unexpectedly affirms death while criticising the nowist culture.