Articles by Engin Kurtay and IIRSS
Bir dönem Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde kızların Boğaziçi yüzüğü takması çok modaydı. .ve eğer bir kız Boğaziçi yüzüğü takmıyor idiyse, bunun nedeni, onun zaten Üsküdar Amerikan Koleji yüzüğü takıyor olmasıydı.
Hem Fanon’u, hem Lenin/Wilson’ı reddediyorsak, öyleyse siyasal öznenin etik duruşu nasıl olmalıdır? Bu yazıda, 130 yıllık bu emperyalist kısır döngünün kaldırılması (Hegel) seçeneğini gösteriyoruz: Don Shirley, Leningrad Müzik Konservatuarı’nda eğitim görmüş Amerikan vatandaşı bir zencidir.
“But a New York Times review of confidential audits conducted by several large firms shows that they have consistently missed child labor.” (Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 28 December 2023)
The emphasis on the word ‘confidential’ is ours. It is not made for our readers but it is made for Hannah, to make her to read once again what she wrote. Continue reading “Everything you want to ask Joshua Callington but would Hannah Dreier be afraid to tell you about forced child labor in the US — Engin Kurtay”
1894’ten bir “travesti” figürü
Yukarıdaki karikatür 1894 tarihli bir Amerikan mizah dergisi, Judge dergisi kapağından alınmıştır. Derginin işlediği tema, “emperyalizm”dir. Ve emperyalizm sözcüğünde hapsolmuş tüm nosyonları keskin bir şekilde yansıtır. Fanon’un eserini yalayıp yutmak için bir haptır. Bu karikatürün bize gösterdikleri bugün bile o kadar basit ve gerçektir ki, sahte “solcu” özgürlük fantezilerini deler geçer. . geçerken de ya öfkeyi kışkırtır ya da (biraz daha akıllı olanları için) görmezden gelinerek (karikatürün de) ikinci bir karikatürleştirmeyle bayağılaştırılır. Bu manevrayla, sıklıkla “ırkçı” bir karikatür olarak suçlanır.
Continue reading “Üçüncü Rusya Araştırmaları Sempozyumu: Emperyalizmin Kıskacında İmparatorluklar“
A “drag-queen” figure from 1894
The caricature above is cropped from a 1894 Judge magazine cover. The theme is “imperialism”. And it sharply features all notions encapsulated in what it means imperialism. It’s a pill to gulp Fanon’s work. It’s so simple and real even today that it relentlessly pierces the “leftist” fantasies of freedom to either incite their aggression or (for a bit smarter ones) lead their indifference and trivialization. That is how it is often blamed as a “racist” caricature. Continue reading “The 3rd Symposium for Russian Studies: Empires in the grip of Imperialism“
Gratitude note:
We owe gratitude to the legendary Turkish fashion designer Ahmet Baytar, for very valuable information he provided us in the composition of this article.
The bikini —or rather the design of the bikini— is the object-cause of the enjoyment that both types of viewers (the macho-identified laughter and the pro-Ukraine LGBTQ+ bloody-ass protester) tend to attribute to the guy and likely to the girl too. The crucial point we make here is that the bloody-ass “protesters” affirm exactly the presence of that enjoyment — their encroachment beyond the natural pleasure principle — attributed to them too. Continue reading “Let’s study how Demna’s work satirizes the Russophobic bloody-ass politics — Engin Kurtay”
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Hamas by no doubt corresponds to what you say for Russia, “a fanatic religious fundamentalist” organisation. And it wasn’t quite a long time ago that it’s antagonistic counterpart, Amichai Eliyahu suggested to use nuklear weapons for their complete annihilation. Continue reading “Dear Prof Zizek, you shouldn’t meme Amichai Eliyahu — Engin Kurtay”
Настоящая академическая работа должна беспокоить. Она не должна никого радовать. Эта надоедливость академической работы – вот что отличает ее от того, что является схоластическим. В том же отношении настоящее художественное произведение аналогично академическому: истинное искусство высмеивает порядок статус-кво и его бенефициаров, в то время как схоластическая подача их удовлетворяет.
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A true academic work is a besetting output. It mustn’t gratify anyone. This peskiness of the academic work is what distinguishes it from what it is scholastic. By the same respect, a Real artwork too, it is analogous to the academic: a true art satirizes the status quo order and it’s beneficiaries while the scholastic presentment pleases them.
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—Tadzio yürümeye devam ediyor—
Not: Bu şiir daha önce 11 Ocak 2011 tarihli Exquisite Corpse dergisinde İngilizce olarak yayınlanmıştır. Hitap edilen Edward (Ed), editör Andrei Codrescu’ya Thomas Mann’ın Der Tod in Venedig kitabındaki Tadzio’yu anımsatmıştır. Continue reading “Sevgili Ed — Nicoleta Marinescu”
Saudi authorities did not allow the grotesque show that the two Turkish teams planned and put into action at the last minute on the playground. The clubs’ executives roared exhibiting more Ataturkism, the match was cancelled and the players returned home. The chorus of short-smart writers and “intellectuals” who consider it wise to oppose everything immediately began singing their usual song: Continue reading “Football provocation by the so-called Kemalists — Engin Kurtay”
Suudi yetkililer, iki Türk takımının oyun sahasında planladıkları ve son dakika devreye soktukları grotesk gösteriye izin vermedi. Kulüpler ekstra Atatürkçü kesildi, esti gürledi, maç ertelendi ve futbolcular yurda geri döndü. Kısa akıllı, her şeye muhalif olmayı bilgelik sayan yazar çizer korosu hemen aldı sazı eline: Continue reading “Sözde Atatürkçülerin futbol provokasyonu — Engin Kurtay”
So far the Russian media failed to specify the logic behind the cancellation of the permission to use the Bulgarian airspace by the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s plane.
Continue reading “Mariya against Maria: the female grudgery as the principal trigger for Russophobia — Engin Kurtay”
Editorial note: In ‘Theory of the Subject’, Alain Badiou theorises four political affects (or emotional states) – courage, justice, anxiety and the superego. The superego represents the force of law, and hence of the established order. Anxiety arises from a lack of symbolic order, and impedes decisive action. Justice is the opposite of the superego. It rejects adherence to present laws. Instead, it expands the symbolic order to include new elements. It is the basis for a new commonality. Courage is the opposite of anxiety. It allows decisive action without guarantees.
Continue reading “Grabbing the bull by the horns without being concerned who gonna follow me — Sahra Wagenknecht”
Editör notu: Alain Badiou’ya göre potansiyel politik öznenin tabi bulunduğu birbiriyle çelişkili dört duygu durumu vardır: cesaret; adalet; kaygı ve süperego. Süperego yasanın gücünü, dolayısıyla verili düzeni temsil eder. Kaygı, simgesel düzende ifade edilemeyenden, dile getirilemeyenden kaynaklıdır ve kararlı bir şekilde harekete geçmeyi engeller. Adalet ise süperegonun karşıtıdır. Halihazırda işlerde olan yasalara körü körüne bağlı olmayı reddeder. Bunun yerine, dili (simgesel düzeni), yeni kavrayışlara izin verecek şekilde genişletir. Ilkelerde ortaklık (commonality) kurmanın temelidir. Cesaret, kaygının karşıtıdır. Başarıda kesinliği görmeden de harekete geçmeyi (risk almayı) sağlar.
Continue reading “Kim arkamda durur diye düşünmeden elini taşın altına koymak — Prof Örsan Öymen”
The Palestine Liberation Organizasyon used to have a secular, progressive political agenda. The US project to clash it with its radical Islamist version was in line with the green belt doctrine in force during the 80s. Then throughout 90s and 2000s the left had been made to adopt this religious radicalism with the pretext of democracy and the green belt doctrine which used to be considered as a corner stone of the Middle Eastern fascism in the 70s and the 80s was made forgotten. Victimization and patheticising played the crucial role here — as it is a general case for all kinds of fascistic movements Continue reading “Hamas’ attacks: the US sabotaging the Netanyahu + Salman approach — Engin Kurtay”
The attacks of Ukrainian government on Ukrainian Orthodox Church took an acute and improvised start on November 2022. The attacks intensified during the following months. As a reaction to all this provocative manipulations, people of Kiev, who consider the facility as their common spiritual and historical heritage, tended to protect the building. But they were stopped and blocked by the Police. Why does the Ukrainian government attack —supposedly— it’s own created Church? And the Western media has carefully avoided reporting any news on this event — and they still keep silence. Why? Continue reading “The onion-dome-phobia of Zelenski regime — Engin Kurtay”
Another detail about the riots could have symbolic relevance: namely, Reuters reported that Chinese tourists were injured when rioters attacked a bus carrying a Chinese tour group in Marseille. The attack, which took place on Thursday, 29 June 2023 again reveals the cabal’s modus operandi. Recall, when the US and NATO bombmed Belgrade in 1999, five U.S. Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs hit the Chinese embassy, killing three Chinese state media journalists. One bomb might have gone astray and hit the embassy by accident, but five bombs were a message, as was (probably) last Thursday’s attack on Chinese tourists. It would be difficult to explain why rioters who had grievances against the French government and demanded Justice for the young Nahel Merzouk, thought they’d obtain that justice in attacking the Chinese. Continue reading “France under attack — Alex Krainer”
I was astonished by the reaction of my colleague, when she told me “there are much more important issues than Julian Assange in our agenda” meaning that the LGBTQ “struggle” was more important than endorsing Assange — sad to mention here, she is professor of Ethics… Now considering this course of events in the post-Nazi Atlantic order that are slightly different than known in the public, things become clearer and nothing becomes astonishing. Continue reading “What if the murderer is put in charge to investigate the murder: Thinking back on Linda Norgrove, the castration of Bradley Manning and the ripped condom in Sweden — Engin Kurtay”
Sansürlenen paragraf: But her tenure at the top of the firm was short and bumpy: Erkan was involved in a series of interactions with other senior executives described in previous reporting in the Financial Times as “toxic”. Continue reading “Hafize Gaye Erkan: Sözcü gazetesinin Financial Times’dan yaptığı alıntıda sansürlediği paragraf — Engin Kurtay”
Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies
Their naming is not arbitrary and definitely not denoting these romantic polar lights. A gunboat diplomacy never consists of merely a military power show off — it is always accompanied by some symbolic messages that only-begotten by diplomates and historians. Romantization is the enemy of Truth, the connerie of the leftists. It’s an open information. But it’s a marginalized knowledge. In our times when humans got used to “think” by associations and short proclaims the nature of censor has changed too. Now we have ‘knowledge at disposal’ as opposed to the ‘marginalized knowledge’. Continue reading “Why did the Nazi-Atlantic axis name their military exercises in the Baltic as “Aurora” — Engin Kurtay”
What was the cause of this allergy — that they were abusing the notion of ‘academic autonomy’ that they so fiercely defended, in its most negative sense as ‘the freedom to marginalize a certain kind of knowledge‘?
Our basic hypothesis here is this:
Establishing and maintaining an ideological hegemony is only possible if the loyalty noose between the epistemic community and the layers below it, is carefully being kept INVISIBLE. A situation in which an epistemic community (a politicized academic group) exposes it’s liaison with propagandists or agitators indicates the collapse of their ideological hegemony.
20 Ocak 2023: Ilk metinde bazı düzeltmeler yapılmış, ayrıca “Çalıştay’ın dili ne olacak tartışması” başlıklı bölüm eklenmiştir.
Uluslararası Rusya Araştırmaları Çalıştayı’nın ikincisi, 30 Aralık 2022 Cuma günü yine Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde düzenlendi. Bu Çalıştay, 10-12 Ekim 2019 tarihlerinde ilk kez Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde düzenlenen Tarih Çalıştayı’nın devamıdır. Alt başlıkta ifade edilen “Avrasya: Tarihsel arkaplan ve jeopolitik tahlil” teması ile tek odağın Rusya olmadığına işaret edildi, etkinliğe Ukrayna sorunu üzerinden anlam yükleme, yargılama eğilimindeki karalamacı siyasal spekülasyonlara böylece baştan set çekildi.
2019’da yapılan ilk Çalıştay’ın 2021’de basılan ve yayımlanan kitabında “HEDEFİMİZ” başlığı altında ifade ettiğimiz aynı ilkelere ve hedeflere bağlı kalındı. Önce ilk kitapta belirttiğimiz ilke ve amaçları kısaca anımsatalım. Sonra aradan geçen üç yılı aşkın sürede bizi izleyenlerin zihinlerinde ortaya çıkan yeni soru işaretlerini yanıtlayalım: Continue reading “HEDEFİMİZ-II”
We would never judge, of course, someone by his\her anchestor’s criminal records. No matter how their “blood” is related, they’re different individuals. Their acts and their thoughts are assented as disconnected from each others.
But what if the descendant of a criminal appropriates and even celebrates this ancestor —not in his/her own private conversations but— in Public, in media? Continue reading “Let’s study how Chrystia Freeland avoids talking on her grandpa’s Krakivski Visti — Engin Kurtay”
Around mid-October 2022 news reported that two idiots committed suicide in Yerevan — but be careful, no news defined them as “idiots”. It’s us, who define them as “idiots”. No one else!
But what it is exactly the “idiocy” here?
It’s certainly NOT in the fact that the suiciders were gays, as many other idiots (some even among our readers) would hastily love grabbing the assertion that we were homophobic and that’s why we call them “idiots”. Fortunately not all gays are LGBTQ+ indoctrinated and the smartest ones are even against to it — against being politically manipulated by dirty LGBTQ+ agendas. Continue reading “They are “victims”, therefore they are tolerable to be Nazis! — Engin Kurtay”
Пусть не в таких масштабах, как это пропагандируют западные медиа, но все же многие жители РФ сейчас второпях стремятся пересечь границы страны, сбегая от частичной мобилизации, объявленой на днях Кремлем.
Но осознают ли они, откуда они пытаются бежать и во что впутываются на самом деле?
Давайте для начала разберём очень хорошую статью Эргина Йлдызоглу (турецкий писатель и аналитик, проживающий в Лондоне), которую он недавно, 12 сентября 2022 г. опубликовал в газете Джумхуриет (Cumhuriyet newspaper): Continue reading “Побег из страны чудес в никчемное ничто — Энгин Куртай”
One of the principal arguments of the imposition of the democracy versus autocracy dichotomy is that while democracies do ensure freedom of speech, share of information and so on, autocracies fail to do that.
Now let’s see how the infamous pioneer of globalist totalitarianism, one of the most popular social networking of this so called “world of democracies”, that Facebook of Zuckerberg censors a video about the outburst of mass rallies protesting the sanctions against Russia. Continue reading “Mass protests break out around Europe and see how Facebook censors them — reported by our colleague from Vienna”
They had no guns in hands but they had stalwart passion and ideas for the Truth. Viles are afraid of the Truth.
—Uğur Mumcu—
and the stalwart lives forever with the Truth she was on pursuit of.
From previous assassination cases — namely with Gendarmery General Eşref Bitlis, journalist Uğur Mumcu and many others — we know that the NATO Gladio starts its heel killings when it fails marginalizing adverse opinions and political trends in public by its puppets in academia and media. We call them the “commissioned intelligentsia” or in other words the “NATO Academic-Gladio“. Continue reading “She will be living forever in Turkish – Russian fraternity — Daria Dugina”
For Roger Waters to pass the-adorno-test he must make a stronger call, that is a call to start a march (not a “parade”) to Belmarsh Jail for freeing Assange. Continue reading “Tear down the wall ! — Pink Floyd”
*Vasily Prozorov is a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (1999-2018). He is the founder of the UkrLeaks project. He answered the questions of viewers and readers on the air of the main opposition project of Ukraine, the Voice of Pravda and on the PolitWera channel.
This interview is the slightly reviewed version of the automatic translation of his own broadcast in Russian.
Here are the main quotes: Continue reading “The shelling of Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant — Vasily Prozorov*”