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23 نوفمبر 2017

ثوب مو ثوبك يعتك

أهيسكا -تحاول تركيا عبور الجسر بين الشرق والغرب منذ أكثر من مائة عام مع علمها بالعلاقة المتناقضة على تلك المواقع الجغرافية مما خلق الدونية الداخلية للأتراك

Occidentalism: The Historical Fantasy of the Modern

A place on the map is also a place in history.
Adrienne Rich, ‘‘Notes toward a Politics of Location’’
One who goes too far East,
Because of geography arrives in the West,
The reverse is also true.
Ece Ayhan, Yort Savul

I offer the term Occidentalism to conceptualize how the West figures in the temporal/spatial imagining of modern Turkish national identity. From its initial conception in the process of defining the Turkish national identity in the late nineteenth century to this day, ‘‘the West’’ has been contrasted to ‘‘the East’’ in a continuous negotiation between the two constructs. ‘‘The West’’ has either been celebrated as a “model” to be followed or exorcised as a threat to ‘‘indigenous’’ national values. I argue that in theorizing the construction and representation of Turkish modernity, we can neither unproblematically herald the Western model nor dismiss the fantasy of ‘‘the West’’ that informs the hegemonic national imaginary. Turkey, which has been labeled by both outsiders and insiders as a bridge between the East and the West, has an ambivalent relation not only to the geographical sites of the East and the West, but also to their temporal signification: namely, backwardness and progress. Turkey has been trying to cross the bridge between the East and the West for more than a hundred years now, with a selfconscious anxiety that it is arrested in time and space by the bridge itself. In other words, the meaning of the present has a mythical core that has persisted over years and which remains as a source of frustration and threat, and as a symptom of internalized inferiority

AFGHAN TREK

من جبال الهملايا الى روسيا وأفغانستان وجرينلاند واليمن في حياة والتر ميتي السرية الخرافة المرئية
From the Himalayas to Russia, Afghanistan, Greenland and Yemen in the life of Walter Mitty's Secret Visual Myth

آثار شيوعية لاتزال صامده

الآثار الشيوعية التي لا تزال قائمة في روسيا وقيرغيزستان، سفالبارد وأوكرانيا وفيتنام وألمانيا وبيلاروس وجورجيا وليتوانيا
worldwide symbols of communism still standing in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Svalbard, Ukraine, Vietnam, Germany, Belarus, Georgia, and Lithuania

الرجل الكابولي

روبندرونات طاغور-  كابوليوالا وتعني "الرجل الكابولي"  قصة عن الصداقة القديمة والرومانسية بين الهند ومدينة كابول
Kabuliwala (originally Cabuliwala) is a short story by Rabindranath Tagore (b. 1861 – 1941), India’s most celebrated literary figure and a Noble Laureate. Kabuliwala which literally means “The Kabuli Man”, is a story about the ancient and romantic friendship between India and Kabul city

16 نوفمبر 2017

التعليم في ظل الاشتراكية

How Yukong Moved the Mountains-  Joris Ivens
Dutch documentary filmmaker Ivens and his wife - the Cultural Revolution of China in 1971

Under socialism education would not only serve the socialist transformation of society but build unity and solidarity between workers and students and teachers, tear down the capitalist structures and superstructures that divide them, and be easily available and understandable to as many people as possible.

15 نوفمبر 2017

James Last Orchestra - Country Train

Winter coming. Like the last heroic soldier
Charles Simic
اﻟﺤﻘﻴﻘﺔ ﻫﻲ ﺃﻧﻨﺎ ﻟﻢ ﻳﻜﻦ ﻋﻨﺪﻧﺎ ﺃﺟﻮﺑﺔ ﻭﺍﺿﺤﺔ . ﺑﻌﺪ ﺗﺮﺟﺮﺟﻨﺎ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﻘﻄﺎﺭﺍﺕ ﺍﻟﻤﺨﻴﻔﺔ ﻭﻓﻮﻕ ﺍﻟﺸﺎﺣﻨﺎﺕ ﻭﺍﻟﺴﻔﻦ ﺍﻟﺘﺠﺎﺭﻳﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﻬﻠﻬﻠﺔ، ﺃﺻﺒﺤﻨﺎ ﻟﻐﺰﺍً ﺣﺘﻰ ﻷﻧﻔﺴﻨﺎ -  تشارلز سيميك

12 نوفمبر 2017

تسجيلات الموت الدعائية

الروس في ستالينغراد استخدموا دعاية موجهة للالمان death tango أو صوت أنثى قائلا "كل 7 ثوان يموت جندي ألماني - ستالينغراد مقبرة جماعية"
Russians in WW2, at Stalingrad. They 24/7 played records called "death tango" or a female voice saying "every 7 seconds dies a german soldier - stalingrad mass grave"

استخد الجيش الامريكي في حرب كوريا دعاية نفسية من خرافاتهم تسمي الروح المتجولة تحتوي اصوات استغاثات ناس قبل الموت
Operation wandering soul” was apropaganda campaign used by the US military during the Vietnam war. Four minute long ghostly audio files were blasted from the speakers of helicopters to distract the enemy, playing on the Vietnamese superstitious belief of the “wandering soul”, which was basically the idea that any person who did not die in their homeland and was not properly buried would wander around as a wailing ghost forevermore