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Starting with the basic question "what is this place?",
award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us
through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP
government - for which she lost her job as a journalist -
Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and
artistic expression. The result is a beautifully rendered account
of the struggles, hopes and tragedies which make Turkey what it is
today. Lamenting the commercialisation and authoritarianism which
increasingly characterises Turkish society, Temelkuran sees hope in
the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the electoral breakthrough of the
progressive HDP party in 2015 and in the simple kindness of
ordinary people. Much more than either straightforward history or
memoir, Turkey: the Insane the Melancholy is like sitting with a
friendly stranger who, over raki or coffee, reveals the secrets of
this rich and complex country - the historic "bridge" between east
and west.
The de-objectification of the photograph in the digital era of the
medium is one of the many issues regarding 'post-photography'
although its consequences on the identity and principles of
photography are as yet largely obscure and argued upon. Alongside
other more structural transformations, objectless photography will
have effects on the medium regarding issues such as memory,
indexicality, authenticity and monetary value. While apparent that
the object continues to survive alongside new immaterial
photographs and influences their implementations, whether or not it
is possible for object properties to be assimilated into the new
system without transfiguring the medium completely remains to be
seen. With the help of discourses from scholars such as Geoffrey
Batchen, Damian Sutton and W. J. Mitchell, this master's thesis
seeks to answer how vital objecthood is to the medium photography
by examining, respectively, the connection of memory to the object
and the ideological differences between the object and its digital
counterpart.
Starting with the basic question "what is this place?",
award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us
through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP
government - for which she lost her job as a journalist -
Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and
artistic expression. The result is a beautifully rendered account
of the struggles, hopes and tragedies which make Turkey what it is
today. Lamenting the commercialisation and authoritarianism which
increasingly characterises Turkish society, Temelkuran sees hope in
the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the electoral breakthrough of the
progressive HDP party in 2015 and in the simple kindness of
ordinary people. Much more than either straightforward history or
memoir, Turkey: the Insane the Melancholy is like sitting with a
friendly stranger who, over raki or coffee, reveals the secrets of
this rich and complex country - the historic "bridge" between east
and west.
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