Tuesday, May 12, 2009

BOOKS - TABLES OF CONTENTS


Çabuklu, Yaşar, The Darkness of the Culture, Paloma Publishing House, March 2012, 148 pages


TABLE OF CONTENTS



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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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