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donate Summary: Varlik 12/2011
Altay Ömer Erdogan, Hayri K. Yetik, Figen Abaci, Asuman Susam
Dossier: Social conscience
This month's dossier questions conscience and looks into the relation between literary works and social conscience.
Altay Ömer Erdogan
Social conscience: The mirror of a stepmother
Altay Ömer Erdogan says, "Left in the hands of a one-click 'like' on social media, conscience detaches from tragedy, which made conscience in the first place, and evolves into comedy – the comedy of mankind who believes he can end hunger in Africa by a text message," and analyzes various authors' approaches to conscience by discussing the responsibilities of the individual and works of literature.
Hayri K. Yetik
Voice of the conscience – Call of the siren (!)
Yetik shows that, "Many men and women of literature in Turkish sacrificed conscience and the injustice." They ignored, shrugged off or could not dare to tackle to their ideologies. Some are confusing independence with socialism even though it is now clear that the revolution eats its own children; some are confusing independence out of their faith in nationalism, as if it was any better from Islamic ideology, and some are playing the three monkeys, making very superficial excuses about the hazards of conscience.
Figen Abaci
Civilization between belligerence and conscience
Figen Abaci argues, "Attempting to explain a sociological concept with the individual as the starting point (instead of in terms of social instinct) will take us closer to the truth," and examines social conscience from a psychological perspective by associating it with the psychological development of the individual.
Asuman Susam
Listen to the voice of your conscience, hear what it says
Asuman Susam says, "We know that conscience is not directly related to law and ethics, even though it may call for justice to its side. Conscience must be the reflection and accumulation of a deeper contemplation. This sense and sensibility is closely related to our humanness. This is why conscience is an inner force that makes our inner world more profound, expands us towards the outside, and has been at the centre of the debate on art and artists."
Hasan Bülent Kahraman
Great, a new year starts
In this issue's chronicles, Kahraman discusses "aging" and says, "Attaining and possessing the beautiful was historically a privilege of the court and the aristocracy. The ability to possess the beautiful, once exclusive to kings, sultans and particularly queens and the harem, is now being acquired by the middle class. Overcoming sexual dysfunction means everyone can achieve the beautiful once again."
Mehmet Rifat
Merve Kurt: Virtual reality and time
Mehmet Rifat continues to print the works of young researchers on the reception and interpretation of works of art. Merve Kurt discusses the connection between the time a work of art is created and the time it is received. After pointing out the differences between two relatively older models (the perspectivist model and the automatic model), Kurt points out how the increasingly more pervasive digital model removes the separation between time of creation and time of reception, and uses the example of a digital media installation to illustrate the emergence of a new kind of connection between art and its reception.
Veysel Çolak
The ramifications of a title make the verse the poem that it is
Çolak says, "Many books are a page by page, line by line, string by string dissection of the title given to it," and investigates the importance of book titles in understanding poems.
Mustafa Serif Onaran
The Turkish Linguistic Society once upon a time
Onaran tells his memories of the Turkish Linguistic Society, where he had been in the management in the past.
Tozan Alkan
False names in world literature
A discussion of writers who use false names, particularly women writers who use men's names to gain acceptance in the male-dominated world of literature.
Published 2011-11-15
Original in Turkish
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