Professor BÜLENT DİKEN
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Professor BÜLENT DİKEN
Education
Doctorate
AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Urban Studies
Bachelor's Degree
AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Urban Planning
Master's Degree
AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Urban Planning
Research Areas
- International Political Sociology
- Political Philosophy
- Cinema
- Social and Cultural Theory
- Urbanism
Work Experience
2016 /
Continuing
Kadir Has University
Professor in Social and Cultural Theory
1999 /
Continuing
Lancaster University
Professor in Social and Cultural Theory
Publications
- Diken, Bülent; Gilloch, Graeme (2023), "Feeling Real, Feeling Free: The Body, Bio-politics and the Spectacle in Blade Runner 2019 and 2049", Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Vol.7, No.1, 1-13 DOI: 10.56801/esic.v7.i1.1
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2022), "COMIC SOCRATES? The Clouds, Taste, and Philosophy", Cultural Politics, Vol.18, No.2, 247-263 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-9716296
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2022), "“Is Something Funny, Asshole?": Joker’s Nihilist Violence", Violence and Nihilism,
- Diken, Bülent (2021), "Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism", Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.38, No.4, 47-69 DOI: 10.1177/0263276420978289
- Tuncer, Ezgi; Diken, Bülent (2021), "Representations of everyday life in İnci Eviner’s We, Elsewhere: comedy, use and free will", International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol.17, No.3, 387-404 DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2021.1905264
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2020), "The collector’s world", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.24, No.2, 101-112 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1773650
- Diken, Bülent; Tuncer, Ezgi (2019), "From Melling’s Harem to Eviner’s Harem: Displacement as Parrhesia", Third Text, Vol.33, No.6, 671-686 DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2019.1667622
- Diken, Bülent (2019), "The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle", Cultural Politics, Vol.15, No.2, 184-201 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-7515042
- Diken, Bülent; Bagge Laustsen, Carsten (2018), "Terror as potentiality–the affective rhythms of the political", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.22, No.4, 412-426 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2019.1631998
- Diken, Bulent (2018), "Strangers, ambivalence and social theory",
- Diken, Bülent (2018), "Migration, the sociology of mobility, and critical theory", Mobilities and Complexities,
- Diken, Bülent (2017), "Money, religion, and symbolic exchange in Winter Sleep", Religion and Society, Vol.8, No.1, 94-108 DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2017.080106
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2017), "‘Life is a state of mind’–on fiction, society and Trump", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.21, No.3, 257-267 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2017.1343027
- Diken, Bülent; Gilloch, Graeme; Hammond, Craig (2017), "The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan: The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker",
- Diken, Bülent (2016), "The Map, the Territory, and the Impossibility of Painting a Priest", Critical Sociology, Vol.42, No.7-8, 1109-1124 DOI: 10.1177/0896920514551209
- Diken, Bülent (2016), "Profanation in Spinoza and Badiou: Religion and Truth", Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.33, No.3, 27-50 DOI: 10.1177/0263276415583141
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2016), "Mobility and the camp", New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences,
- Diken, Bülent (2015), "Critique as justification - and beyond", Sociological Review, Vol.63, No.4, 922-939 DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12336
- Diken, Bülent (2015), "God, politics, economy: Social theory and the paradoxes of religion",
- Diken, Bülent (2015), "Religious antinomies of post-politics", The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics,
- Diken, Bülent (2015), "Political spirituality: The devils, possession, and truth-telling", Cultural Politics, Vol.11, No.1, 18-35 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-2842385
- Diken, Bülent (2014), "The emancipated city: notes on Gezi Revolts", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.18, No.4, 315-328 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2014.959306
- Diken, Bülent (2014), "Religious antinomies of post-politics", The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics,
- Diken, Bülent (2014), "Nihilism, Revolt, and the Spectacle", The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel,
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2013), "Mobility and the camp", New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences,
- Diken, Bülent (2012), "Revolt, revolution, critique: The paradox of society",
- Diken, Bülent (2011), "Revolt as pure politics - And the subject", Third Text, Vol.25, No.5, 539-551 DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2011.608958
- Diken, Bülent (2011), "Huxley's Brave new world - and ours", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.15, No.2, 153-172 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2011.574056
- Diken, Bülent (2011), "Fire as a metaphor of (Im)mobility", Mobilities, Vol.6, No.1, 95-102 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2011.532657
- Diken, Bulent (2009), "Radical critique as the paradox of post-political society", Third Text, Vol.23, No.5, 579-586 DOI: 10.1080/09528820903184815
- Diken, Bülent (2009), "The (Impossible) Society of Spite: Revisiting Nihilism", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol.26, No.4, 97-116 DOI: 10.1177/0263276409104970
- Diken, Bülent (2008), "Nihilism",
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2008), "Sociology through the projector",
- Diken, Bülent (2008), "Sacrifice as gothic romance", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol.26, No.4, 747-751 DOI: 10.1068/d2604agc
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2008), "Nomadism and the Ghetto", Constituting Communities: Political Solutions to Cultural Conflict,
- Diken, Bulent (2008), "Climates of nihilism", Third Text, Vol.22, No.6, 719-732 DOI: 10.1080/09528820802652482
- Diken, Bülent (2007), "Houellebecq, or, the carnival of spite", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.11, No.1, 57-73 DOI: 10.1080/14797580601149767
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2006), "The camp", Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, Vol.88, No.4, 443-452 DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3684.2006.00232.x
- Diken, Bülent (2006), "From exception to rule: From 9/11 to the comedy of (t)errors", Irish Journal of Sociology, Vol.15, No.1, 81-98 DOI: 10.1177/079160350601500107
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2006), ""We two will never twin": Fundamentalism and the politics of security", Global Society, Vol.20, No.2, 199-221 DOI: 10.1080/13600820600576449
- Albertsen, Niels; Diken, Bülent (2006), "Society with/out organs", Deleuze and the Social,
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2006), "From war to war: Lord of the Fdlies as the sociology of spite", Alternatives, Vol.31, No.4, 431-452 DOI: 10.1177/030437540603100404
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2005), "The culture of exception: Sociology facing the camp",
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2005), "Becoming Abject: Rape as a Weapon of War", Body & Society, Vol.11, No.1, 111-128 DOI: 10.1177/1357034X05049853
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Basse (2005), "The ghost of Auschwitz", Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.9, No.1, 69-85 DOI: 10.1080/1479758042000331943
- Diken, Bülent (2004), "From refugee camps to gated communities: Biopolitics and the end of the city", Citizenship Studies, Vol.8, No.1, 83-106 DOI: 10.1080/1362102042000178373
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2004), "Sea, sun, sex and the discontents of pleasure", tourist studies, Vol.4, No.2, 99-114 DOI: 10.1177/1468797604054376
- Albertsen, Niels; Diken, Bülent (2004), "Artworks’ Networks: Field, System or Mediators?", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol.21, No.3, 35-58 DOI: 10.1177/0263276404043619
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2004), "7-11, 9/11, and postpolitics", Alternatives, Vol.29, No.1, 89-113 DOI: 10.1177/030437540402900105
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2002), "Zones of indistinction: Security, terror, and bare life", Space and Culture, Vol.5, No.3, 290-307 DOI: 10.1177/1206331202005003009
- Diken, Bulent (2001), "Immigration, multiculturalism and post politics after 'nine eleven'", Third Text, Vol.15, No.57, 3-12 DOI: 10.1080/09528820108576937
- Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (2001), "Postal economies of the orient", Millenium, Vol.30, No.3, 761-784
Projects
Project Name | Role in the Project | Project Type | Fund Establishment | Project Date |
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Türkiye'de Film Çalışmaları ve "Kapitalizmin Yeni Ruhu" | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
05.07.2023 05.01.2026 |
Yirmibirinci Yüzyılda Köleliğin Kavramsallaştırılması | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
10.10.2023 10.10.2025 |
Courses Offered
Course Name | Course Code | Period |
---|---|---|
Cinema and Sociology | FTV534 | 2023/24 Spring |
Classic Figures of Social Thought | CS503 | 2023/24 Spring |
Cinema and Sociology | RTC338 | 2023/24 Fall |
Social Theory | CS506*2 | 2023/24 Fall |
Social Theory | CS506*2 | 2024/25 Fall |
Cinema and Sociology | RTC338 | 2024/25 Fall |