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Öğe “Yasak İlişkiler” ve “Suçlu Sohbetler”: Donna Haraway’in “Yoldaş Türler” Anlayışı(2023) Akıllı, SinanAmerikalı biyolog-filozof Donna J. Haraway'in insanın gezegendeki yerini, insan dışı canlılarla ve teknolojiyle olan ilişkisini çok disiplinli bir yaklaşımla sorgulayarak yeni bir insan ve çevre kavrayışını ortaya koyduğu "yoldaş türler" kavramı anlatılacaktır.Öğe “Revelation in the Garden of Eden: The Millennial White Stallion in the Paintings of the First Garden”(2022) Akıllı, SinanThe first ever and the most well-known garden in the Judeao-Christian cultural history is the Garden of Eden. As the setting of the beginnings of history, the creation of mankind, and the original sin, as well as being the home of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the garden “God planted … in Eden away to the east” has been the subject of numerous paintings by European artists in the early modern period. Even though the Serpent is “the only representative of the animal realm that makes an appearance in the Garden Story . . . symboliz[ing] the animal kingdom and/or the ‘animal’ side of the human being” as Dmitri M. Slivniak puts it, the artistic representations of the Garden of Eden are replete with images of various animals. Some of these animals are domesticated ones familiar to Europeans for centuries and some others are “exotic” and “wild” animals with which the Europeans met for the first time during the exploration age. However, a survey of these early modern paintings reveals the centrality and/or recurrence of a white stallion, which was alternatively depicted as a dapple grey horse as well. Notwithstanding an easier explanation of such centrality of the white stallion in these paintings due to the place of the horse in early modern European society and culture, in this paper I will argue, with reference to Revelation 19:11-16 which explicitly refers to Jesus Christ mounted on “a white horse” to start a “paradise” on Earth for a thousand years, that the deliberate depiction of a white horse in the Garden of Eden may as well be an expression of the Christian Millennialist belief.Öğe Problematizing the Definition of Utopia and Dystopia(2021) Atasoy, Emrah“Problematizing the Definition of Utopia and Dystopia”Öğe Hope in Speculative Literature: Utopia & Dystopia on the Screen(University of Southern Denmark, Odense & The Royal Danish Academy, 2021) Atasoy, EmrahSpeculative fiction offers a possibility to look beyond the reality and to imagine alternative world scenarios, which enables us an opportunity to question the existing social order through its potential to break existing boundaries of normality and imagine the impossible and the unknown. Therefore, the figures who have been traditionally accepted as “abnormal” or socially excluded are given a voice in the imagined or fantastic realms of speculative works. Speculative texts, which have become especially popular with the COVID-19 pandemic, have a strong potential to function as warnings through their worldbuilding capacity, as they draw particular attention to numerous problems and issues such as ecological crisis, climate crisis, population problem, and the use of technology. In this regard, utopia and dystopia, which can be categorized as the subgenres of speculative literature, have gained popularity both in academia and among the general public, as people are attracted more and more by dystopian futures and quests to discover utopian dreams. Dystopia, which the eminent utopian scholar Lyman Tower Sargent describes as “a non-existent society described in considerable detail and normally located in time and space that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as considerably better than the society in which the reader lived” is traditionally considered to be lacking in hope, as dystopian narratives illustrate nightmarish world scenarios but hope in dystopian fiction can be ascertained through a close reading of such relevant works (“The Three Faces,” 1994: 9). In this regard, the aim of this paper is to seek hope and utopian impulse in speculative fiction through the discussion of selected utopian and/or dystopian works, especially critical dystopias, and their screen adaptations.Öğe Translating Thomas More into Turkish: Domestication and Foreignization Strategies in Utopia (1516)(2021) Atasoy, EmrahThomas More’s seminal text, Utopia (1516), a highly significant text of utopian literature, or the founding text of the literary tradition of utopianism, as some scholars argue, has been translated numerous times into Turkish. More’s text has become crucial as an inspirational source in the quest for utopia, which the utopian scholar Lyman Tower Sargent describes as “a non-existent society described in considerable detail and normally located in time and space” (1994, p. 9). Although there does not exist a rich tradition of utopianism in Turkish literature, there has been a growing interest in the literary genre over the last decades, which has accordingly resulted in a substantial increase in the quantity and quality of such utopian and dystopian works to be produced and to be translated. More’s text has been translated from such languages as English, German, French, and Latin into Turkish, but there exists only one translation from Latin, the original language of the source text. In this regard, this presentation will seek to compare and analyze these different translations of More’s Utopia with specific references to the domestication, which can be described as “an ethnocentric reduction of the foreign text to target language cultural values, bringing the author back home” (Venuti, 1995, p. 20) and foreignization, which “allows the readers to experience the ‘otherness’ of a foreign text” (Ajtony, 2017, p. 96) strategies.Öğe Religious Fundamentalism, Corporate Capitalism, and Pandemics in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, and Ling Ma’s Severance(2021) Atasoy, Emrah; Horan, ThomasWhile the rapid dissemination of COVID-19 took many people by surprise, major works of recent apocalyptic fiction anticipate global pandemics similar to the one we currently face. This speculative literature warns that epidemics can catalyze religious fanaticism, even in so-called modern societies, challenging the Wellsian notion that technologically advanced societies are less susceptible to religious extremism. Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), the first novel in her MaddAddam trilogy, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014), and Ling Ma’s Severance (2018) prompt us to consider how the persistence and recurrence of pandemics could affect mainstream religious views and practices. Epidemics in this literature highlight disturbing similarities between corporate capitalism and fundamentalism by portraying both as faith-based, hierarchical systems, indicating that our free market economic system may actually prime us for theocracy. These dystopias also show how sceptical, sophisticated characters can unwittingly acclimate to corporate capitalism and religious fanaticism almost as easily as they can be infected by illness. This emerging sub-genre of apocalyptic fiction indicates that organized religion and a market economy can only function beneficially when distinct from each other.Öğe Subversion of The Hegemonic Discourse in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Literary Utopia, Herland(Kocaeli Üniversitesi & Modernizm ve Postmodernizm Çalışmaları Ağı, 2020) Atasoy, EmrahCategories are social constructs that promote a binary approach, creating strict dichotomies. Such classifications play an instrumental role in social inclusion and exclusion as well as implementing oppressive practices, as they are so deeply embedded in our cultural assumptions about gender, race, physical attributes, sexual orientation, and social status. These assumptions and the intersections of those axes do matter in our approach to identity and various social groups. However, under the strong influence of postmodernism that challenges and disrupts dualistic thinking, it has become necessary to deconstruct these binary oppositions in order to enable the formation of a social order free from gender inequality and other aspects of oppression. Exposing the fabricated nature of socially-constructed categories and dualistic thinking through deconstruction in this regard can demonstrate the need to see multiple possibilities and alternatives rather than fixed taxonomies. Utopian narratives can be useful and functional in offering such a realm with its generic characteristics, as utopia is interested in alternatives and the search for an ideal social order. Utopian narratives may envision alternative social orders that can challenge such ingrained attitudes towards gender, race, ethnicity and other axes, as the desire for “a better, ideal world” plays a central role. In this respect, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novel, Herland (1915) subverts the hegemonic discourse and deeply embedded assumptions about gender, femininity and power relations by presenting an alternative utopian world order run solely by women. The aim of this presentation is therefore to discuss Gilman’s Herland in terms of the representation of gender and power to demonstrate the need to dismantle binaries so that the formation of an ideal future may be possible.Öğe A CRITICAL INSIGHT INTO MATTHEW ARNOLD’S “THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY”(İKSAD GLOBAL PUBLISHING, 2021) Atasoy, EmrahMatthew Arnold, one of the representative figures of the Victorian age, a period of transition and transformation as well as of scientific and technological developments, presents the characteristics of his age by means of his poetry. In this regard, he illustrates a wide range of topics such as isolation, alienation, frustration, the condition of the modern man, and faith in his poems. His poem, “The Scholar-Gipsy” deals with such themes through the wanderings of an Oxford student that joins the gypsies in order to learn their secret. It is a pastoral poem that draws a detailed picture of the landscape and is narrated from the poet’s point of view. He talks to the shepherd and addresses the scholar. Modern life is depicted in its negative aspects, and the mortal men suffer in this modern life. The poet is presented as a figure that might have psychological crisis and feels alienation, loneliness, and frustration. His personality is split in a state of loss and looks for the spiritual harmony. This paper will in this respect discuss Matthew Arnold’s attitude towards his age and the poet’s desire to escape from modern life in the light of the critical analysis of Arnold’s poem, “The Scholar-Gipsy.”Öğe “The Posthumanist Turn in Adaptation Studies, or the Lack Thereof...”(2021) Akıllı, SinanSpike Jonze’s 2002 film Adaptation has been a common reference in the field of Adaptation Studies which has been bourgeoning in the past two decades or so. In the film, John Laroche’s reflection on the relationship between the bee and the bee orchid (clearly inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s definitions of “becoming-wasp” and “becoming-orchid” which exemplifies a rhizomatic relationship ) is given as a powerful analogy for a renewed understanding of the relationship between literary texts and their screen adaptations. This renewed understanding of textual study lies at the heart of contemporary Adaptation Studies. By freeing the study of literature to screen adaptations especially from the constraints of “fidelity criticism” (i.e. the comparison of the film with the literary source to measure how faithful the supposedly ‘inferior’ film adaptation remains to the source text, the representative of the supposedly ‘superior’ art form), adaptation scholars have effectively focused on the rhizomatic relationships between and among texts, intertexts, metatexts, and, of course, contexts of all kinds; historical, social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, psychological, and economic. In short, Adaptation Studies has been informed by almost all the turns (i.e. the linguistic, the cultural, the ideological, etc.) that the humanities fields it draws from have also taken over the past few decades. All except for the ‘posthuman turn’.Öğe “Animal Laborers in Cappadocia: Complicating the Human-Animal Divide.”(2019) Akıllı, SinanSince the times Peter Singer published his seminal Animal Liberation (1975) and Tom Regan made The Case for Animal Rights (1986), critical discourses on animal rights and animal liberation mostly remained limited with concerns about the industrial uses and capitalist exploitation and consumption of the bodies of the suffering animals. Meat consumption, leather and fur production and experiments on lab animals have been the typical targets of these philosophical and activist reactions that focus only on the materiality of biotic existence. Though well-grounded, these reactions seem to have neglected the exploitation of the “material-discursivity,” in Karen Barad’s terms, of the animal body. As pre-historic cave paintings and human-made artefacts prove, humans have been consuming not only the material bodies of animals, but also the discursivity of those bodies, generated by their semiotic value. Today, we are living in the middle of the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals. This crisis urges us for a wider understanding, among other things, of the abuses of the animal body by humans. Accordingly, I argue that, for the establishment of multispecies justice, the exploitation of the material-discursive bodies of animals as “semiotic laborers” should also be accounted for. In this context, the animal laborers in Cappadocia, namely the horses and camels that occupy a significant place in the local tourism industry, represent an intriguing example.Öğe “So Much Depens Upon a Red Wheelbarrow.”(2018) Akıllı, Sinan; Al, Umut; Doğan, Güleda; Taşkın, ZehraInspired by the governing image in the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by the American poet William Carlos Williams, this poster will illustrate the culmination of the transformation that the municipal libraries in Turkey have been undergoing since 2016 as a result of Project LIFE. Prior to the catalyzing effort initiated by Project LIFE, funded by the Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the municipal libraries in Turkey were almost completely unknown and invisible, despite their potential for being key institutions that can benefit the society. With the implementation of the GL project model, the municipal libraries were transformed from being ordinary and marginal places into extraordinary and central “3rd places” that can serve their users and the society at large in a myriad of different ways. Aligned with the vision of IFLA, itself a legacy partner of the GL, the Project LIFE libraries, “upon which so much depends” now, are ready to address critical universal goals such as the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda, as well as to create increasing impact in Turkey in the seven designated impact areas of GL: digital inclusion, health, economic development, education, government and governance, leisure, communication.Öğe Horse-Human Entanglements in the English Novel of the Anthropocene(2019) Akıllı, SinanWithin the scholarly debate regarding the “rise of the novel,” one of the commonly agreed views is that from around the mid-1740s onward the English novel leapt forward in its evolution. In the century that followed, that is until the late 1840s, the canonical English novel rapidly grew into maturity. This historical period almost perfectly coincided with the historical core of the Industrial Revolution, which is considered as the beginning of the Anthropocene by many scholars. Almost in the middle of this century-long period, which may be called the ‘Early Anthropocene Age,’ stood James Watt’s invention of a working steam locomotive (1784). Watt’s invention started a process in which horses that were the nonhuman animals with the greatest agential power in the signification, production-consumption, and exchange systems of the human society in Britain began to be replaced with “horse power” and “iron horses” by the end of the Victorian period. However, during this century the horse continued not only to perform actual labor in England in the cities and in the countryside, but also to do narrative work in English fiction. With the Darwinian Revolution of the mid-nineteenth century, yet another shift occured, but this time in the perception of the ontological dimensions of human-horse relationships. The Darwinian understanding of the ontological continuity between humans and animals also found its reflections in English fiction. On this background, this paper first puts the Anthropocene context in dialog with the “rise of the novel” debate. Then, from a posthumanist critical position, discusses and illustrates the “narrative agency” of living horses with reference to Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews (1742), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1848), and that of dead horses in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891).
