Conversation Between Life and Death: Transience

3 June 2026 - According to Freud, the fact that something is bound to change does not decrease its value; on the contrary, it adds a unique "rarity value" to it. At the root of human resistance to accepting this rational truth lies the soul's difficult mourning mechanism. In this event, we will discuss transience by tracing this exact tension.

Seminar State of the Art in Digital Technologies: New Wave AI, Promises, and Problems

23 May 2026 - What does the "New Wave Artificial Intelligence" promise us for the future, and what problems does it inherently contain? In this presentation, we will try to address how we should strike a balance between these two poles.

Seminar Against the Black Box: Context, Actor, and Practice in Communication Technologies

17 May 2026 - In this talk, we will develop a social-constructivist critique of communication technology by focusing on the triad of context, actor, and practice while examining the place of communication technologies in social change.

Seminar Breaktime

7 May 2026 - Along with Turgay Tuna, a true lover and connoisseur of Istanbul who also studied in these very halls, we will retrace the steps of those schools that still leave a distinct mark on the social and physical landscape of Beyoğlu.

Conversation On the Borderline of Submission and Freedom: Love

6 May 2026 - In this talk, we examine the fragility of modern relationships through Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of Liquid Love. Is committing to someone a form of submission or the end of freedom?

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

18 April 2026 - The future of work, one of the prominent topics in the ongoing debate surrounding artificial intelligence, must be considered precisely in this context of social contradictions, relationships, hierarchies, and power relations.

Conversation On the Borderline of Order and Chaos: Art

8 April 2026 - In this talk, from the way psychedelic experiences dissolve consciousness to Michael Pollan’s existential discoveries, we examine how art and expanded consciousness blur the boundaries of the "self".

Seminar Technological Art: Creation Processes in the Dialectic of Human and Technology

15 March 2026 - In this talk, we will attempt to question and examine the creation processes in the dialectic of human and technology, looking through the perspective of homo technologicus and focusing on Selçuk Artut's artworks.

Conversation On the Borderline of Normal and Abnormal: Madness

11 March 2026 - In this talk, Dr. Cengiz Arca and Ezgi Emel invite you to walk the fine line between the diagnostic power of psychiatry and philosophy’s quest for freedom.

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Creativity

25 January 2026 - In this seminar, we will address the philosophical debate on creativity through the relationship between embodiment and the capacity for abstraction, reflecting on whether artificial intelligence can be seen as an accomplice that reveals the radical possibilities of abstraction.

Program Mom, Am I an Artist?

Conversation On the Borderline of Pleasure and Pain: Dopamine

14 January 2026 - In this talk, starting from the paradox in Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation, we will discuss why the instant gratification we seek in every notification, purchase, and scroll eventually turns into a massive burnout.