AULA CONSILIOSUS
Wield wisdom, one short paragraph at a time
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Starship Troopers
(This is taken from the author’s presentation for another symposium on the general issue of perception. Various talking points have been merged to create this ad-hoc essay. The stream of consciousness may not be great, but recreating the actual verbal arguments made from the presentation over 3 years ago is impossible anyway.) First published in…
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Halef Diyarı Kitap Serisi-Kızıl Bostan
Merhabalar, bu yazımda Halef Diyarı serisinin ilk kitabı olan Kızıl Bostan’ı inceleyeceğim. Kızıl Bostan, Türkiye’de fazla bilinmeyen, bilinse bile ülke içerisinden çıkan örneklerini fazla görmediğimiz bir tür olan fantastik kurgu türünde olduğundan dikkatimi çekti. Yazar Hakkında Melih Taşcı’nın edebiyata olan ilgisi ilkokulda yazdığı öyküler ve okuduğu kitaplarla başladı. Ortaokul ve lisede edebiyata olan ilgisi artarak…
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Culture Industry, and Why It Doesn’t Exist
This short essay will take the views and arguments of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer on their self-named “culture industry” at its key interest, and will try to provide rebutting statements from a classical liberalist, and laissez-faire perspective. Lines from a summary of their chapter called Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, within the larger…
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Augustan Literature
Embodying major ideas such as scepticism upon the monarchy, the pursuit of scientific knowledge through reason, and accepting each person as an individual, the Age of Enlightenment which occupied the better part of the 17th and 18th centuries was a period of intellectual and cultural growth in Europe that gave birth to writers and poets…
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What Is Poetry?
Poetry has been used, recited, written by people for as long as humanity has known itself, and while its technical definition may be that its a form of literary expression characterized by its use of carefully chosen words, structured rhythms, and often, creative and artistic language coupled by reasonably placed successive lines of literature, which…
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Freud, The Unheimlich, Shortest Explanation
In his widely-studied essay, Sigmund Freud explores the many facets of what is uncanny, proposing underlying or aiding causes such as the double, repetition, dissolution of familiarity, the return of the repressed, ambiguity between what is surreal and real among others to define a concept that hadn’t been properly addressed before. According to Freud, the…
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Gogol’s Overcoat, Short Analysis
A short analysis of Nikolai Gogol’s Overcoat, which was and still is a influential piece of literature hailing from the mid-19th century Russian Empire.
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The Essay-Language is Style, and Style is Language
This short essay, is all about how essays come to be and their components, mainly that of language and style/decorum.
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