Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation

Walter Benjamin has famously pointed out that we are living in a society in which the exception has become a norm. Giorgio Agamben adds to this claim another one, that the spatial ordering principle for this new order is the camp. This article focuses on this diagnosis. We do not, however, discuss its validity but rat…

Well over a millennium and a half ago, Augustine distinguished between two cities: the Heavenly City and the Earthly City. While one was the site of all that was holy and spiritual, the place of faith, the other was foul and wicked, the realm of the flesh. Such dichotomies, expanded into a full‐fledged binary logic, p…

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We describe here a Turkish girl with pigmentovascularis type 2b, consisting of disseminated Mongolian-spot-like maculae and unilateral Sturge-Weber angiomatosis.

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• AYŞE DENİZ YÜCELTEN

The city has a strong memory and it never forgets its own experiences. The past, the present and the future of the city can be read in its streets, buildings, sounds, myths, rhythms and stories. More importantly, if the city is portrayed through a camera, it becomes as fictional and designable as films. At this stage,…

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The purpose of this article is to indicate the dimensions of Walter Benjamin’s conception of "technique". It is argued that the only way to understand his problematic technique is by considering the concepts of experience and political action. The present article emphasizes the philosopher’s transitivity of technical…

• MURAT ERTAN KARDEŞ

Norberg-Schulz’a (1980) göre; insan, içinde gezinebildiğinde ve kendini bir çevre ile tanımlayabildiğinde ya da kısacası çevreyi anlamlı olarak deneyimleyebildiğinde yaşar. İnsan doğayla, toprakla kök salmaya, 'yer'leşmeye uğraşır. Mimarlık da 'yer'den başlar. Yer, mimariyi barındırır, yaratır ve dönüştürür. İnşa ve i…

• PINAR DİNÇ KALAYCI

This is a study of the link between the house and the city, based on a close reading of three historical statements from Western urban theory by Leone Batisti Alberti, Le Corbusier, and Paul Virilio. Sexualized metaphors of the house as the feminine, private realm and the city as the masculine, public realm proliferat…

Gilles Deleuze Sinema II: Zaman-İmge eserinde sinema ve düşünce arasındaki ilişkiyi kendi ürettiği “beden sinema” ve “beyin sinema” kavramlarıyla inceler. Deleuze, düşünceden kaçan şeyin “yaşam” olduğunu ileri sürerken, bedeni merkeze alır. Düşünürün beden kavrayışı, Spinoza’nın “etkileme ve etkilenme gücü” anlamında…

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