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Seminer Crisis, Critique, Criterion: Transitions Between Culture and Civilisation

In an ancient language the word “critique” was used to refer to the process of sieving. And “criterion” was the name of the instrument used for sifting.

Seminar Art and Activism

In this seminar, initially avant-gard art concept and political art concept as a social activism form will be discussed.

Short Film Life Between the Exit Signs

A young man is standing in a hospital room inhabited by his mentally ill mother. She is asleep; instead of waking her, he leaves the room.

Short Film Favourites

After falling out with her mother, rebellious Sofia wants to hitchhike to Italy in search of her biological father.

Seminar Relational Aesthetics and Its Critic

In this seminar, evaluation of Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics and the Radicant concepts will be practiced along with visuals from some of the artists that produces concordant works.

Seminar Writing, Art and Body

In this seminar, the relationship between art and writing, the endless relationship between art writing and the artwork itself will be discussed through texts and works.

Seminar Art and Globalization

The seminar will examine them within a new “world politics”, new “technological developments” and new “philosophical field”.

Seminer Kant's Project of Critique and the Crisis of Contemporary Philosophy

The talk aims to address and critically evaluate the nature of this crisis and the philosophers' pursuit of coming up with a resolution to this crisis.

Seminar Nietzsche's Critique of the Writing of History and Praise of Active Forgetfulness

Nietzsche has placed the question of ‘How to live one’s life?’ at the basis of his philosophy.

Seminar Crisis as a Phenomenological Problem: Meaning, Action and Event

Our aim will be to demonstrate that phenomenological thought along the axis of intentionality and epoche is not only a description of the inner experience of things lived, but that it can also be used for the critique of our present-day social and collective phenomena.

Seminar Crises of Legitimacy and a Discursive Philosopher: Habermas

At the heart of the theoretical and political project of the Frankfurt School (Critical Theory) lies the transformation of the concept of critique.