BOOKS - TABLES OF CONTENTS
Çabuklu, Yaşar, The Darkness of the Culture, Paloma Publishing House, March 2012, 148 pages
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THE CALL OF THE VOID
Boredom 9
Trapeze Dancer and Suicide Jumper 21
Tightrope Walker 25
Window 35
Desert 43
AMBIQUOUS AREAS
Labyrinth 51
Swamp 57
Ruin 65
Dust 73
Corridor 79
THE PART OF THE DUPLICATE
Shadow 87
The Mirror and Me 95
Phantom Limb 103
Plastic 107
TOWARDS THE END
Spiral and Vortex 117
Rembrandt and His Self-portraits 127
Slaughtered Ox 137
REFERENCES 143
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Pictures from Postmodern Society, Paloma Publishing House, April 2010, 152 pages
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FROM OPEN NATURE TO PROTECTED SHELTERS
New Age Travellers 9
SUV 20
Architecture of Fear and Gated Communities 34
LIFESTYLE AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE
Sleep and Insomnia 49
Home Improvement, Minor Repairs&Mainstream "Do It Yourself" Culture 62
Mobile Phone 74
Ecotourism 85
Postmodern Marketing and Logo Culture 98
NEW SOCİAL GROUPS / PRESSURES
From Yuppie to Bobo 115
Generation X 128
Prozac Culture and Women 139
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Social Performances, Ayraç Publishing House, 2009, 136 pages
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The Real and Performance
Society of Performance 11
Reality Tv 21
Zoo 33
Performances Related to Sexuality
Male Dancer and Modernity 45
From Dandy to Metrosexual 55
Masquerade 65
Stand-up Comedy, Humor, and Women 75
Striptease 85
Deadly and Mechanical Performances
Dissection and Necrophilia 97
Execution 107
Dole and Barbie Culture 121
Collective Body and Dance Performances in Nazi Period 129
Index 135
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Social Constructs and Sexism, Everest Publications, 2007, 170 pages
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Woman and “Addiction”
Alcohol, Women and Modernity 3
Cleptomania as a “Bourgeois Female Disorder” 11
Chance, Finance, and Gambling 20
Gossip as a Part of Oral Culture 32
Gloom Caused by the Lost: Melancholia 43
Series, Compulsions, and Emotional Constructs
Serial Murder as an Escort to the Culture of Serial Production 55
Collection 68
Seduction as a Game and Ritual 81
Love in Post Modern Society 91
Fatherhood 101
Constructs of Othering
Hair in Civilization Process 113
Public Face and Modernity 123
Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty Culture 131
Light, Enlightenment, and Modernity 142
Politeness and Violence 150
The Witch 162
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Different Aspects of the Body, Kanat Book, 2006, 185 pages
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“Female Disorders, Perversions”
Hysteria: the Language of the body who is deprived of her speech 3
The Medicalization of the Middle-Aged Female Body: Menopause 14
Nymphomania: “ From Perversion to Addiction” 25
From Vaginal Orgasm to Clitoral Orgasm 34
Menstruation: From Blessing to Shame 45
Self-injury and Body Modification 54
In between, Transitive, Mixed Situations
From Fixed Sexual Identities to Ambiguous Sexualities: Queer 65
Contagiousness, Epidemics, and Power 77
Animality 87
Freak: the Other Created by Modernity 94
Prosthesis 107
Male Wholeness, “Perversion”, and Fragility
From Impotence to Erectile Dysfunction 121
Disability 131
Masochism: the Breaking Point of Masculinity 138
Masturbation 151
Male Nudity and Exhibitionism 158
References 169
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Space and Evil, Everest Publishing House, 2006, 186 pages
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Space
The Darkened Room, Mediumship, and Spiritualism 1
Everyday Life and Private Space 15
Non-places 27
Haunted House and the Uncanny 33
Gender and Space 42
To Build an Inner Room of One’s Own: Anorexia 53
Space in Post Modern Society 59
Flanerie in Modern and Post Modern Spaces 72
Cultural Studies: Beyond Economic Space 83
Agoraphobia: The Fear Caused by the Transformation from Place to Space 95
Clock Time and Space 102
From “Real Space” to Cyber Space 112
Evil
From Sacred Violence to “Enlightened Violence” 125
Ressentiment: Accumulated, Poisonous Mass of the Repressed 138
As Evil Becomes Ordinary 151
State of Emergency: From Exception to Permanence 162
As Racism Gets Institutionalized 173
Lynching: An Act of Discharge by the Madding Crowd 180
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Body on the Border of the Social, Kanat Book, 2004, 177 pages
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As Collective Unities Are Shaken
The Rise and Fall of Citizenship 3
From Traditition to Nowhere 10
Poverty and Unemployment 18
The Fall of the Mass Party 25
From Modern Peremptory Morality to Post Modern Light Ethics 32
Community as a Refuge 42
Population: the Resurgence of the Neo-Malthusianism 49
Nostalgia as a Branch of Industry 59
Modes of Existence of the Body
Old Age: From Modern Passive Retirement to Post Modern Active Consumerism 67
Pain: the Unnamable Voice of the Body 77
As Emotions Are Being Commercialized 86
Human Skin as a Fashionable Wrapping Paper 96
Illness: From Bio-medical to Bio-cultural Model 104
Myths Surrounding the Body
Fashion in Modern and Post Modern Societies: From Ironed Pants to Faded Jeans 115
Fetishism: Enchantment of Objects 124
Sports: From Disciplined Body to Fitness 135
Food: From Haute Cuisine to Fast-food 141
From the Mechanics of Solids to the Anarchy of Fluids 151
References 163
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Crisis and Politics in Post Modern Society, Kanat Book, 2004, 160 pages
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Situations Where “Normal” Process is Hampered
Uncertainty From Modernity to Postmodernity 3
The Symbolic Order of Commodities and Anomaly 14
Miracle of Disaster 18
The Tragedy of Twin Towers 22
Old Crisis, New Crisis 27
Risk Society 31
“Sedatives”Against Crisis
The “Unbearable Lightness” of Consumption 39
Leisure 44
New Age: the Commercial Science of the Spirit 57
Cynicism and Irony 68
Globalization and Politics
New Global Forces and Politics 81
New Global Opposition: From Internationality to Inter-locality 86
Old Globalization, New Globalization 91
As Politics is Being Dimmed 97
The Left: From the Absolutization of Equality to the Solidarity of the Different 101
Politics of “Individual Areas”
Politics of the Body 107
As Identities are Disintegrating 118
Speed and Politics 123
Politics of the Impossible 130
The Politics of Space 137
References 147
Index 157
Çabuklu, Yaşar, In Search of Libertarian Thought, Metis Books, 2002, 139 pages
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Institutions and Domination
Confinement and Power 9
Society of Security 13
As Media is Being Globalized 16
Under the Shadow of Institutions 19
Everyday Life, Autonomy, Solidarity
Everyday Life and Anarchy 27
New Social Movements 31
Subcultures and Micropolitics 37
In the Wake of Autonomous Zones 42
Rhizome and Anarchy 46
Temporary Direct Democracy Zones 50
Popular Culture and Opposition 55
Carnival and Opposition 62
Mutual Aid and Solidarity 65
Solidarist Societies 68
Anarchic Tones
From Classical Anarchism to Poststructuralist Anarchism 73
Marx in the Face of Anti-Authoritarian Thought 79
Twenty-first Century Anarchism 86
Anarchist Grape Harvest 92
Tolstoy: a Christian Anarchist 96
Weil: a Libertarian Mystic 101
Primitiveness and Anarchy 111
Is Social Anarchism Against Marginals? 115
Anarchy of the “Negative” 119
Thoughts Provoked by Nietzschean Anarchism 123
Anarcha-feminism and Body 129
Çabuklu, Yaşar, Trace of the Outcast, Metis Books, 2001, 122 pages
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Presentation: Nurdan Gürbilek 7
Introduction 15
Black Holes
Chaos 21
Disaster 23
Death 26
Funeral 32
Murder 37
Guiltiness 40
Miracle of the Waste
Shit and Toilet 47
Garbage and Sewer 52
Cadaver: Remnant of Life 54
Curse of the Surplus 58
Curse Upon Us 62
Punk: Nihilism of the Abandoned Class 66
The Uncanniness of Space
Home 75
Comfort 77
Death of the Spaces 79
Copy Without Original 83
Bad Look 85
The Individual and Evil
The Diary of an Enemy of Society 89
Must We Burn Sade? 94
Landru and Bonnot 100
Voyeurism 104
Destructiveness of Numbers 112
Don Juan: Ceremonialisation of Commonness 115
Individual Excess Versus Social Mediocrity 118
