Düşünceler: Ecce homo!
Speech as the void. – We cannot remain silent because there is a problem. We speak because there is the void. Silence as speech. – Silence refers to an objective state of quietness, while reticence is a subjective situation behind which there lies a subject’s will to be silent. The former is a natural situation; … More Aphorisms on Silence
Boşluk olarak konuşma: Sessiz kalamayız, çünkü ortada bir sorun var. Konuşuyoruz, çünkü ortada boşluk var. Konuşma olarak suskunluk: Sessizlik, nesnel bir sükunet durumuna işaret ederken suskunluk, arkasında failin sessiz kalma istencinin olduğu öznel bir durumdur. Önceki, doğal bir durumken sonraki, bir failin fiilidir. Kişi, sessizlik hakkında, sessizliğin nedenleri ve sonuçları hakkında konuşabilir. Ama sessizliğin kendisi … More Sessizlik Aforizmaları
Written on March 2010 under the inspiration of Simon Schama’s “Power of Art” on Caravaggio… With his last painting David with the Head of Goliath, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio sought the pardon of the Pope for the murders he committed. Having decapitated Goliath, David shows the head of the monster, a self-portrait of the painter, … More The Gaze
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the Courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr This brilliant prayer, originally written by the American theologian and philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr and curiously adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs, grants … More The “Secret” Formula for Happiness: Not Desiring What is Undesirable
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. SAMUEL BECKETT There is no such thing as “success”, pure, perfect, and glorious; but only “success in failure”, the courage and talent to turn a failure into a success, albeit impure and imperfect, but the most glorious.
Arap Baharı, Ortadoğu’nun neredeyse bütün ülkelerini devrimlere ya da iç savaşlara sürüklemişken 2000’ler Türkiye’si Kürt meselesiyle boğuşmaya devam ediyor. Ve neo-liberalizmin zaferi karşısında, sınıf savaşımı eski haşmetini kaybetti derken grevler olur; siber eşkıyalar, twitter üzerinden devlet kurumlarını tehdit edip birbirleriyle hesaplaşırlar. Bu ülkede, yine de, siyaset anlayışı alabildiğine gelenekseldir; siyaset, Osmanlı’dan bu yana, idamların icra … More Tıpkı Kuyruğunu Yakalamaya Çalışan Bir Köpek Gibi
As opposed to the classic socialist jargon “We are right, we will win!”, the most basic truth of life is “We are mighty, we are right!” The sacred concepts of morality, i.e. right or wrong and just or unjust, are alone empty concepts. As power gives the content of morality, might defines (and re-defines) what … More Right and Might
All of us are works in progress, or rather, works that shall never be completed. It is just a futile attempt to complete ourselves, self-realization can never be achieved. Do not tidy your room (your books, pictures, tools, ideas) so that when you die, the image of your room will demonstrate “you” as you are, … More Ecce Homo
We have been lost, weak, and miserable, and will remain so, as long as we wait for the moment of salvation. We are the offshoots of the slaves constantly dreaming of a single sacred moment that would put everything all right and prove ourselves to others without any further doubt. We have been the cowards, … More Nec Spe, Nec Metu
Nec Spe Nec Metu 