…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: MehmetContinue reading “Antroposen’e Hoşgeldiniz “
Tag Archives: Philosophy
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,Continue reading “Sıralanabilir”
It is simply masked
From Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation: To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn’t have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: “Whoever fakes an illness can simply stayContinue reading “It is simply masked”
Palamut
As soon as one man was recognized by another as a sentient, thinking Being, similar to himself, the desire or the need to communicate to him his sentiments and thoughts made him seek the means to do so. Bir insan başka biri tarafından hisseden, düşünen ve kendine benzeyen bir varlık olarak tanıdığı anda ona kendiContinue reading “Palamut”
Objectives
One should be like an experienced archer, who, trying to hit someone at a distance and knowing the range [virtú] of his bow, aims at a point above his target, not so his arrow will strike the point he is aiming at, but so, by aiming high, he can reach his objective. Machiavelli …usta okçularContinue reading “Objectives”
Hannah Arendt & René Char
Excerpted from Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill: Arendt was demanding, unapologetic, and opinionated. She was not a feminist, a Marxist, a liberal, a conservative, Democrat, or Republican. She loved the world and accepted what she understood to be the fundamental elements of the human condition: we do not exist alone, we are all differentContinue reading “Hannah Arendt & René Char “
Düşünce ile pratik arasındaki bu bariz ayrılık
Excerpt below is from Hegel & Haiti by Susan Buck-Morss Çeviren: Erkal Ünal By the eighteenth century, slavery had become the root metaphor of Western political philosophy, connoting everything that was evil about power relations. Freedom, its conceptual antithesis, was considered by Enlightenment thinkers as the highest and universal political value. Yet this political metaphorContinue reading “Düşünce ile pratik arasındaki bu bariz ayrılık”
Whoever risks fighting monsters
Her kim bir canavarla çarpışmayı göze alırsa, bir canavar olmayı da göze alın. Çünkü karanlığı uzun süre bakarsınız, karanlık da sizin içinize bakmaya başlar. Whoever risks fighting monsters risks becoming a monster. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also begins gazing into you. Nietzsche
Bir küçük düşünsel çatlamaya yol
Arapça kökenli “hüzün” kelimesi Kuran’da bugün Türkçede kullanılana yakın bir anlamda iki ayette, ayrıca “hazen” şekilde üç ayette daha geçiyor. Hazreti Muhammed’in karısı Hatice ile amcası Ebu Talip’in öldüğü yıl için “senetül hüzn” (hüzün yılı) denmesi, kelimenin ruhsal tarafı ağır basan bir kayıptan kaynaklanan bir duyguyu anlattığını kanıtlıyor. Okudukları, kelimenin bir kayıpla, onun yarattığı ruhsalContinue reading “Bir küçük düşünsel çatlamaya yol”
Ordinary tyranny
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. Bir despotluk sıradan olarak kabul edildiğinde, artık zaferi kesindi. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Çeviren: Bilge Gündüz Illustrations: The Decameron