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Below are excerpts from my research throughout the years. I am still in the process of uploading the texts to a drive, but can gladly share them with you through e-mail until then. Contact info is at the top right.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text.

In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times.

In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times.

The theorem can be generalized to state that any sequence of events which has a non-zero probability of happening will almost certainly eventually occur, given unlimited time.

The theorem can be generalized to state that any sequence of events which has a non-zero probability of happening will almost certainly eventually occur, given unlimited time.

Postmortem Soundscapes: A Sonic Phenomenology and Epistemology of Islamic Funerary Praxis

Does death mark the end of aurality, or does hearing persists on another level after the end of our biological cycle? Accompanied by a short documentary of my fieldwork.

  • death studies

  • Islamic epistemology

  • liminality

  • hearing

  • gender

An Idempotent Sound: How to Cross the Bridge in Crossing the Bridge (2005)?

Fatih Akın through (and beyond) mathematics.

  • sound of Istanbul

  • non-philosophy

  • idempotency (1+1=1)

  • global-without-globalization

  • déjà entendu

On Digging & Filling: A Subterannean Mosque of the (w)Hole

Investigating the possibility of a void on earth through Sancaklar Mosque in the outskirts of Istanbul, located in the underground. Accompanied by a photography booklet.

  • the void

  • horror vacui

  • Islamic philosophy

  • mosque architecture

  • Emre Arolat

xecuc, Blow Your Trumpets: A Virtual Becoming without Organs

Xenopoetics of xecuc through the Deleuzian corps sans organes.

  • Artaud

  • Deleuze

  • the virtual

  • limit state

  • sound

Eschatological, Apocalyptic, and Visionary Literature in Middle Persian: Kirdir’s Vision & Ardā Wīrāz Nāmag 

A comparative reading of two Middle Persian works on the hereafter.

  • inscriptional literature

  • heaven and hell

  • Ohrmazd

  • liquidity

  • oral history

From the Battleground to the Stage: Entering the Military Sonic Complex

Sonic weapons of Ottoman nationalism and Westernism.

  • mehter (the janissary band)

  • Musika-i Hümayun (the imperial orchestra)

  • modulation

  • acoustic forces

  • affect

Science or/and/with/apart Religion: Digital Analogies for Going Beyond

What does the Enlightenment enlighten? A literature review.

  • Talal Asad

  • Irfan Ahmad

  • Souleyman Bachir Diagne

  • Yunus Telliel

  • Stefania Pandolfo

Identity Politics in the Football Field: A Case Study of The Traveler (1974) and Offside (2006)

Iranian cinema highlighting the way in which football goes beyond the matter of life and death.

  • gender

  • desire

  • entre nous

  • André Bazin

  • Hamid Naficy

YÖK! Polis! Medya!: Énochopolitics at Boğaziçi University

Bogazici Resistance through diary entries.

  • post-truth

  • spectacle (Debord)

  • hyperreal (Baudrillard)

  • surveillance

  • uncertainty

Beyond the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy in Filmfarsi: Motherhood and Agency

The diegetic significance of motherhood in Filmfarsi.

  • commercial film

  • gender

  • Gheysar (1969)

  • Qarun’s Treasure (1965)

  • Into the Night (1978)

A Cosmic Bleakness

A scenario.

  • time-image

  • the void

  • destructivism

  • organic sound

  • capitalism-as-religion

7777777: Sebettu & Medical Fragments in Ambiguity

Who are the 7 in ancient Mesapotamia?

  • imin.bi (Sumerian) / sebittu (Akadian)

  • Gilgamesh and Huwawa

  • Erra

  • wholeness & plenitude

  • totality & multiplicity

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