New York City offers whatever you want, quickly and without much fuss. You just gotta walk the walk. I was excited to see the art in the city’s museums. So I walked the walk, between museums.
Whitney Museum
We visited the Whitney Museum on Halloween eve. The museum was open...
“The century that trusted in the future” started to dissolve in 1977, says Franco “Bifo” Berardi.1 Since then society has fragmented to the point that it has become un-recomposable. Recomposition means people finding a common ground for understanding and acting together for ...
Last week was so busy that I skipped writing a weekly update here. I figured it’d be better if I wrote an ad-hoc update1.
I’m writing this in a hotel room on Long Island, New York. It’s 5:00 AM. This is my first time experiencing jet lag. I can see why people are not fans of...
A few days ago I saw a post on Instagram about a simple test to figure out how you actually feel about someone: “two beers and a puppy” test.
It was invented by Ross McCammon in his book, which has a ridiculously long subtitle: Works Well with Others: An Outsider’s Guide to ...
On Thursday, October 15, I completed my 31st cycle around the sun.
My wife bought us tickets for “Elephants and Ants”, a play based on one of Yaşar Kemal’s books. It was a story about elephants oppressing ants with their brute power, and ants, after years of abuse, rebellin...
I was feeling under the weather for most of the week. It’s crazy that the majority of the people I know, even those who live on different continents, have been sick lately. Thanks to ibuprofen, I was borderline functional despite feeling unwell.
We started watching True Det...
Work is busy, political work is busy, social life is busy.
The machinery of life, thankfully, is interesting. Busy, busy, busy.
I spent ~12 hours in the studio working on my next sculpture. I initially thought that this would be my simplest one to date, but it’s not. I stil...
After the highs of Amsterdam and the exhibition last Saturday, I naturally feel a little low.
While we are on the lowlands, here’s the soundtrack of this week’s update:
For the last two weeks, I’ve only posted photologs as updates. I’ll cover minor happenings in this week’s...
I like Todd McGowan. He writes and talks about the most jargon-heavy areas of philosophy (German Idealism, Lacan, Marxism) and somehow finds a way to keep it simple and accessible. His simplicity is the biggest indicator of the vastness of his knowledge.
Recently, I read his...
My second sculpture, Étude, was exhibited yesterday. Here are the photos of 4 months of work and progress.
8 May 2026
1 June 2026
8 June 2026
19 June 2026
22 June 2026
8 July 2026
30 July 2026
13 August 2026
20 August 2026
16 September 2026
19 September 2026
19 September 2026
19 September 2026
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I started psychoanalysis at a moment when I was trying to run away from multiple things. Running away from one meant running towards another. I was stuck. I don’t feel like that anymore. In the last session I heard myself say: nowadays I’m not running away but always running...
The absolute best thing about smoking is you meet a lot of random people. Last week, while staying in Amsterdam, I met two guys smoking in front of the hotel. We started talking. Initially, I thought they were Armenian. I thought “fuck, they will be biased against me because...
This week was one of the most intense weeks in my life in a positive way. It’s hard to describe everything that happened in words, so I’m not going to even try.
the most american place in amsterdam
sigh
we are here to unshittify
caught conspiring
the amount of labor we required to do what this machine does in few seconds...
jennifer hopelezz
if you know, you know
brothers separated by a border
porn star limousine
the most beautiful city in europe
the end.
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In my short time in Bremen, I visited the Kunsthalle to look at art. Here are a few pieces that moved me in some way.
Franz Radziwill, name and year are unknown (to me)
It's hard to do justice to the redness of that red with a photo. It immediately mesmerized me even ...
I spent most of the weekend in Bremen, Germany. Strolling around the city, I encountered two sculptures that I really liked.
I saw this right after I arrived in the city. Before anything, its scale made me stop. At first I thought it was a futuristic scene. Then I realized ...
“Oh please, don’t sell me out”
Said the man with the hammer hammering the anvil
”I’ve been walking on the road of rocks
I keep on hammering, keep on hammering
Keep on hammering, hammering the anvil
I started my third sculpture: a male arm holding a hammer.
For people who ...
This website is, in some sense, an open call for everyone out there: “this is what I think and this is what I do, let’s connect!” This requires setting up pathways for people to reach out to me, and people want interacting to be as frictionless as possible. Here’s a list of ...
I feel an immense sadness. I’m grieving the loss of a pillar of my self-identity: my career as a software developer. Although I’m not sure if this grief is rational, or whether software development is really doomed for good. But it’s clear that a shift has happened, both in ...
This week started with a weight scare. I went shopping for some shorts and realized I don’t even fit into most of them. I knew I’d gained weight over the last few years but it was mostly muscle. Recently though, I realized I gained a lot of belly fat. I know I’ve neglected m...
We had a visa appointment at the US Embassy in the capital city, Ankara, on Friday. We were supposed to go there by the sleeper train on Thursday night but unfortunately my wife, in a way very out of character for her, made a mistake and bought tickets for Friday night inste...
What a week, huh?
Captain, it’s only Wednesday.
This was me on Tuesday evening. Someone hit my car while it was parked and ran away. Since Tuesday, this has been the biggest thing occupying my mind. The problem is not that the car is damaged and I need to take it to the ...
- What a week, huh?
- Captain, it’s only Wednesday.
This was me on Tuesday evening. Someone hit my car while it was parked and ran away. Since Tuesday, this has been the biggest thing occupying my mind. The problem is not that the car is damaged and I need to take it to th...
I got sick. I don’t know how I managed to catch a flu-like virus in the middle of the summer, but I did. Funny, in English you say “catch a virus” but in Turkish we say “get caught by a virus”. I don’t know who caught whom, but I had been under the weather since Tuesday.
Des...
I got sick. I don’t know how I managed to catch a flu-like virus in the middle of the summer, but I did. Funny, in English you say “catch a virus” but in Turkish we say “get caught by a virus”. I don’t know who caught whom, but I had been under the weather since Tuesday.
Des...
July came and went and I didn’t write a reply post to anyone.
Why? I simply haven’t read anything that I felt I could build upon. I had a few knee-jerk reactions where I could have written a condescending reply post, but what’s the point of that?
To be honest, I’m not sad about missing JulyReply. I don’t like forcing things.
July came and went and I didn’t write a reply post to anyone.
Why? I simply haven’t read anything that I felt I could build upon. I had a few knee-jerk reactions where I could have written a condescending reply post, but what’s the point of that?
To be honest, I’m not sad about missing JulyReply. I don’t like forcing things.
one day late edition. again.
I spent the last week in my hometown at my grandma’s summerhouse. I didn’t take time off from work since I had a lot of commitments to meet, and couldn’t swim as much as I’d have liked. Anyway, I’m grateful to be able to swim at all!
Last week...
one day late edition. again.
I spent the last week in my hometown at my grandma’s summerhouse. I didn’t take time off from work since I had a lot of commitments to meet, and couldn’t swim as much as I’d have liked. Anyway, I’m grateful to be able to swim at all!
Last week I...
What’s the point of putting things into my read-it-later app?
Actually, I know the point: it gives me a false sense of accomplishment. I now have this essay in my possession. It makes me feel good about myself immediately—without doing the thing.
Even though I wrote a somewh...
What’s the point of putting things into my read-it-later app?
Actually, I know the point: it gives me a false sense of accomplishment. I now have this essay in my possession. It makes me feel good about myself immediately—without doing the thing.
Even though I wrote a somewh...
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