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Hegel, 1!’e eşit olan 1’in, 0!’a eşit olan 1’e denk olmadığını, Cantor’a nasıl anlattı? — Engin Kurtay, AliPolaT

 

 
Hegel, epistemik özne‘nin takıldığı takozun ilk kez içini açıp bakmaya, zihnin çalışma ve bilincin yapılanma kurallarını tartışmaya başlar. Bir anlamda felsefe, Hegel ile yeniden başlar. Kant takozu neydi? 19. yüzyılda epistemik özne neden rafa kalktı? Bu noktalara işaret etmeden Hegel tartışmak olmaz. Hegel, Kant’ın sentetik apriori dediği matematik ve geometrinin de felsefesini kurarak bunları ruhban (hem dinsel hem akademik anlamda) kibrinden, skolastisizminden kurtardı — aşağıda Cantor bahsi içinde tam da bu ruhban-matematikci skolastisizmini tartışacağız. Continue reading “Hegel, 1!’e eşit olan 1’in, 0!’a eşit olan 1’e denk olmadığını, Cantor’a nasıl anlattı? — Engin Kurtay, AliPolaT”

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Did Arthur Krim offer his wife to Lyndon Johnson “in the high interests of Israel”? — Israel Shamir

The title is coined by the editor. The original text was published in Russian by Israel Shamir, referring and quoting the stunning article of Alexander Mezentsev.

Editor’s Preface (with an Afterword below): The bombing of the American warship Liberty by the Israeli armed forces on June 8, 1967 (during the Six-Day War), with the cooperation of President Lyndon Johnson, is one of the little-known, often unspoken historical events. The ship narrowly escaped sinking thanks to the heroic resistance of its crew, and managed to return to Malta under the watchful eye and protection of a Soviet warship. Many of those who know about the event misunderstand it, believing the ship (like the battleship Kocatepe) was hit by mistake. Another misleading narrative is as follows: Israel’s rapid advance in the war, its swift takeover of the Sinai Peninsula, and its potential entry into Egypt, even worried the US. Not wanting to have problems with Egypt, a Soviet ally, and consequently with the Soviet Union, the US sent the Liberty intelligence ship to the waters off Gaza to leak information to Egypt against Israel, thus aiming to restrain Israel. Realizing this, Israel bombed the ship to teach the US a lesson. The implication of this narrative is simply this: although everyone thinks Israel is a puppet state of the US, it is not; Israel is an independent state that prioritizes its national interests and can even stand up to the US when necessary.. .however, Israel Shamir’s text (based on Alexander Mezentsev’s article) below suggests that the goose’s foot is scalloped (a technical term in Turkish social sciences meaning that the phenomenon is quite different and complex than it is seen).

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Arthur Krim, İsrail’in ‘yüksek çıkarları’ için nikahlı karısını Lyndon Johnson’a peşkeş mi çekti? — Israel Shamir

Başlık, Editör tarafindan seçilmiştir. Metnin orijinali, Alexander Mezentsev’in Rusça makalesine dayanarak Israel Shamir tarafından Rusça olarak yayınlanmıştır.

Editörün Önsözü (en aşağıda bir de Son Sözü olacak): 8 Haziran 1967’de (6 Gün Savaşı sırasında) İsrail silahlı kuvvetlerinin Başkan Lyndon Johnson işbirliği ile Amerikan Liberty savaş gemisini bombalaması, gemi personelinin kahramanca direnişi sayesinde geminin batmaktan kıl payı kurtulması ve bir Sovyet savaş gemisinin gözetimi ve koruması altında Malta’ya geri dönmeyi başarması, az bilinen üstü örtülmüş tarihi olaylardan biridir. Olayı bilenlerin de çoğu olayı yanlış bilir, geminin (aynı Kocatepe Zırhlısı gibi) yanlışlıkla vurulduğunu sanırlar. Diğer yanıltıcı bir anlatı da şöyledir: İsrail’in savaşta hızlı ilerlemesi, Sina Yarımadası’nı bir çırpıda alması ve Mısır’a girebilecek olması ABD’yi bile kaygılandırmıştır. Sovyet müttefiki olan Mısır ve dolayısıyla Sovyetler Birliği ile sorun yaşamak istemeyen ABD, Liberty istihbarat gemisini Gazze açıklarına göndererek İsrail aleyhine Mısır’a bilgi sızdırmaya başlar, böylece İsrail’i dizginlemeyi amaçlar. Bunu fark eden İsrail de ABD’ye iyi bir ders vermek için gemiyi bombalar. Bu anlatıdaki ima basitçe şudur: Herkes İsrail’i ABD’nin kukla devleti sansa da öyle değildir, İsrail, ulusal çıkarlarına öncelik veren gerektiğinde ABD’ye bile ayar verebilen bağımsız bir devlettir.. .. gel gelelim, Israel Shamir’in, Alexander Mezentsev’e dayanarak hazırladığı aşağıdaki makalesi, kazın ayağının hiç de öyle olmadığını, bütün bu söylenenlerden çok daha taraklı olduğunu söylüyor.

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ASIO’nun (MI5’ın) görevi nedir: Kamu güvenliğini mi gözetmek, yoksa İslam düşmanlığını mı kışkırtmak? — Engin Kurtay

Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’ın kardeşi yazıyor: “Marcus, altı yıl boyunca DEAŞ bağlantılı örgütlerin içinde çalışan bir ASIO ajanıydı. Ciddi istihbarat zaaflarını ortaya çıkardı. Bunun bir bedeli oldu, ama yine de görevini yaptı. Şimdi ise Bondi Terör Saldırısı’ndaki zaafları ifşa etmek için bir kez daha cesur bir adım attı. Marcus artık Avustralya’da değil. Ailesinden ayrı. Bir zamanlar içine sızdığı aşırılıkçı örgüt ve onu susturmak isteyenler tarafından hayatına yönelik ciddi tehditler var.” Continue reading “ASIO’nun (MI5’ın) görevi nedir: Kamu güvenliğini mi gözetmek, yoksa İslam düşmanlığını mı kışkırtmak? — Engin Kurtay”
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What is the job of ASIO (MI5): Watching security in the public or fermenting islamophobia? — Engin Kurtay

“Marcus was a ASIO agent who spent six years working inside ISIS-linked organisations. He exposed serious intelligence failures. It came at a cost, but he did it anyway. Now he has taken another courageous step forward again to reveal the failings of the Bondi Terrorist Attack.
Marcus is no longer in Australia. He is separated from his family. There are credible threats to his life from the extremist organisation he once infiltrated and those who want him silenced.” writes, Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother. Continue reading “What is the job of ASIO (MI5): Watching security in the public or fermenting islamophobia? — Engin Kurtay”

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The full version of the interview with Militarblatt – Engin Kurtay

Ernst Röhm: anachronistically an enthousiast of LGBTQ

Questions:

1. While the German government spends huge sums on rearming the Bundeswehr, the police do not have the resources to even respond to calls for help. In Wuppertal, a migrant with a knife attacked bus passengers, but no law enforcement officers arrived, so the criminal was able to escape. Does Germany need a strong army or a properly functioning police force? Why does the country need so many soldiers to defend its borders when there is already a war between migrants and citizens in its cities?

2. German engineering lost 22,000 jobs in 2025. Most companies are trying to retain staff due to an acute shortage of skilled workers, but there is not enough money for salaries. Germany is entering its third consecutive year of industrial decline, with growth only in military enterprises such as Rheinmetall. Where can a laid-off German engineer who does not want to assemble tanks find work? Will peace in Ukraine help hundreds of thousands of Germans get their jobs back?

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Yüzüklerin Hanımefendisi — Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde düzenlenen Üçüncü Rusya Araştırmaları Sempozyumu’na arz ettiğimiz korsan bildiridir.

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.

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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

 

“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”

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Üçüncü Rusya Araştırmaları Sempozyumu: Emperyalizmin Kıskacında İmparatorluklar

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.


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The 3rd Symposium for Russian Studies: Empires in the grip of Imperialism

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“

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Let’s study how Demna’s work satirizes the Russophobic bloody-ass politics — Engin Kurtay

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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Утонченность в дизайне Надежды Копыловой: как прочитать обложку книги — Енгин Куртаи

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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The Finesse in Design by Nadezhda Kopylova: How to read a book cover — Engin Kurtay

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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Sevgili Ed — Nicoleta Marinescu

Resmin kaynağı: Jeremy Willard’ın 21 Mart 2017 14:32 tarihli XTRA’da yayınlanan “Who was the real Tadzio?” başlıklı makalesi

—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”

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Football provocation by the so-called Kemalists — Engin Kurtay

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”

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Sözde Atatürkçülerin futbol provokasyonu — 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”

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Grabbing the bull by the horns without being concerned who gonna follow me — Sahra Wagenknecht

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.

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Kim arkamda durur diye düşünmeden elini taşın altına koymak — Prof Örsan Öymen

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.
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Hamas’ attacks: the US sabotaging the Netanyahu + Salman approach — Engin Kurtay


An advance in tourism business by establishing nude beach at the coast from Israeli border till the Egyptian border is administered to improve the economic conditions in Gaza Strip

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”

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The onion-dome-phobia of Zelenski regime — 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”

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France under attack — Alex Krainer

Chinese Embassy in Belgrade,
Bombed by NATO in 7 May 1999


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”

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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

“Cheese” Joseph, it’s photo shooting
The 3rd of July is the birthday of Julian Assange. And this article is a birthday gift to Julian.

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”

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Hafize Gaye Erkan: Sözcü gazetesinin Financial Times’dan yaptığı alıntıda sansürlediği paragraf — 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”

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Why did the Nazi-Atlantic axis name their military exercises in the Baltic as “Aurora” — 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”

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OUR MISSION-II


The back cover of the first Workshop’s Proceeding

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.

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HEDEFİMİZ-II


Ilk Çalıştay’ın kitabı, arka kapak

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”

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Let’s study how Chrystia Freeland avoids talking on her grandpa’s Krakivski Visti — Engin Kurtay

Hey Chrystia! Don’t be a puppet. You should go to Ukraine and join your army for re-writing a decent national history!

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”