The Astronomer and the Geographer
PDF · Yeni Harman · March 2011
Remembering a journey with Oğuzhan Müftüoğlu and two generations of revolutionaries.
Writings
Essays, historical pieces and interviews published in magazines and newspapers.
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Suspects by Default: Istanbul’s Bachelor LadsA social and political history of the bachelor rooms of Ottoman Istanbul.
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Rosetta and HalleyHow the Rosetta spacecraft got its name from Ottoman Egypt, and the doomsday panic Halley’s Comet caused in Istanbul in 1910.
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Magazine archive
Original magazine page scans. The texts are in Turkish.
Boltzmann’s Melancholy
PDF · Akıl Defteri · February 2011
Entropy, disorder and revolution: “Nature is like revolution…”
The Feast of the New Right
PDF · Yeni Harman, sayı 148 · December 2010
A class reading of Bruegel’s “The Peasant Wedding”.
Hope, Grapes and a Flat Cap
PDF · Yeni Harman, sayı 142 · June 2010
“Being a revolutionary is not guarding a lost country but lovingly weaving one yet to be built…”
Could CERN Find Yalçın Aslan Too?
PDF · Yeni Harman · May 2010
From the missing “God particle” to the case for socialism.
Istanbul Letter
PDF · Yeni Harman · November 2009
“The Bosphorus, bed of merry hearts” — the residents of a Kanlıca yalı and their ties.
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Press
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Why doesn’t the AKP bourgeoisie want Aydın Doğan?
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How did Güneri Cıvaoğlu become a doyen?
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Interview
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Interview