Introduction to Sociotechnical Cognition | 🦋🤖 YERSİZ ŞEYLER

November 2015 (Turkish)

Some questions I directed on Twitter to my friend who is a doctor of quantum physics.

“Exposing harassment is the women’s form of resistance.”

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Barış: Uğur do you think that we can take this as an axiomatic basis like a law of Physics? I mean, can we abstract woman-being from all of its biological determinations and then characterize any case of harassment exposure as a contingent emergence phenomenon by the social woman subjectivity? This may also reveal a dialectical link between sexuality and evolutionary dynamics.

Uğur: Of course we can say that exposing is one of the prominent forms of resistance practiced by women. But I would call it a fact rather than an axiom. Instead of defining womanhood from such a negative, reactionary basis, wouldn’t it be better to define it from a more active basis?

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Published in Turkish in the e-book compilation Brave New Media (April 2011) by Alternative Informatics Association

Camera had long been deemed as marking a secure and obscene enthusiasm that’s inclined to interesting sights. War photographer journalists whose occupations were deemed sacred were a more specific party exempted from these weaknesses. But the cameras that were turned into a device of action by the people participating in the Arab rebellions of 2011, marks the collapse of both of these privileges. The world approaches a point where we might not need journalists to witness what goes on far away, where we can get out of this sanctity also by all citizens becoming journalists, a point where the camera watching over world streets cease to be an intruding foreign eye to become the world peoples’ own eyes.