Alexandrian Library
The heart of the Alexandrian Library was its collection of books. The organizers combed all the cultures and languages of the world. They sent agents abroad to buy up libraries. Commercial ships docking in Alexandria were searched by the police — not for contraband, but for books. The scrolls were borrowed, copied, and then returned…
Running Up That Hill
from The Annotated Alice — Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Alice Açıklamalı Notlarıyla —Aynanın İçinden by Lewis Carroll & edited by Martin Gardner çeviren: Müge Sözen “Ben yalnızca bahçenin nasıl olduğunu görmek istedim Majesteleri…” “I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty—” “Tamam,” dedi Kraliçe onun başını…
Soft Bed Silence
from The Annotated Alice — Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Alice Açıklamalı Notlarıyla —Aynanın İçinden by Lewis Carroll & edited by Martin Gardner çeviren: Müge Sözen “Hepiniz nasıl bu kadar güzel konuşuyorsunuz?” dedi Alice, bir iltifatla çiçeği yumuşatmayı umarak, “Daha önce bir sürü bahçede bulundum, ama hiçbir çiçek konuşamıyordu.” “How is…
This could be an allegory for…
from Son Oyun, Ahmet Altan: Galiba o anda, hayatımın değişiceğini hissetmiştim, bunu anlatmak çok zor, o gülüş ve hemen ardından gelen o tutuşun bir başlangıç olduğunu nasıl anlamış olduğumu anlatamam, sadece anlamıştım işte. It was probably in that moment that I sensed that my life was going to change. It’s so hard to understand…
Antroposen’e Hoşgeldiniz
…humans — thanks to our numbers, the burning of fossil fuels, and other related activities — have become a geological agent on the planet… …kafa sayısı, fosil yakıtlar yakıyor olması ve bunlarla bağlantılı başkaca faaliyetleri nedeniyle, insanoğlunun gezegen üzerindeki jeolojik etmenlerden biri haline gelmiş olması. Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses” Çeviren: Mehmet…
Why tell about the dark wood
Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Yaşam yolumuzun ortasında karanlık bir ormanda buldum kendimi, çünkü doğru yol yitmişti. Ah, how hard it is to tell the nature of that wood, savage, dense, and harsh — the very thought of it…
An excellent plan, no doubt
Excerpted from The Annotated Alice / Açıklamalı Notlarıyla Alice by Lewis Carroll, edited by Martin Gardner “The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, “is to grow to my right size again; and the second is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think…
To wonder
For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. Biz ki güzelliğini bu çağlarda görürüz, Gözlerimiz hayran da dillerimiz övgüsüz. Shakespeare Çeviren: Talât Sait Halman
Yalnız eskiler varsa
If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how our brains are beguiled… Yeni hiçbir şey yoksa, yalnız eskiler varsa Demek ki beynimize oynanan bir oyun var… Shakespeare Çeviren: Talât Sait Halman
Sıralanabilir
From Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard Such is simulation, insofar as it is opposed to representation. Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the real (even if this equivalence is utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Simulation, on the contrary, stems from the utopia of the principle of equivalence,…
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