"He is the One who perfected everything He created. [...]" As-Sajdah, 7. Recently, while thinking about mediocrity again, I wrote the following on Twitter: "I've been thinking about this for a while, and I'm making a claim…"
The film I watched recently, O da bir şey mi? (And the Rest Will Follow), is a Turkey–Bulgaria–Romania co-production. It screened in Rotterdam in February and at the Istanbul Film Festival in April. It's picked up some awards, among other things. Details…
I asked Grok to draw something representing the communication network of dentists. This is what it drew. In this piece, I'll try to lay out some observations about problems faced by freelance dentists, and offer some suggestions for solving them…
This piece contains plenty of details liable to spoil the mood, and the unpleasantness isn't confined to one section — it's spread across the whole thing. Either leave now, or read to the end. Why, and how, this film?…
"My son Behçet, do you know what the bankruptcy of a civilization is?" Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Mahur Beste, p. 118. The series of essays titled "Our Great Mediocrity," which we began by searching for ways to earn without labor…
"Anyway, in this brief final analysis, let us once again set aside the introduction that wounds us so. Like every proper Turkish youth — that is, like every decent, weary-of-life citizen whose relationship to sport has never gone beyond watching a match…
Like the other posts on this blog, this piece won't be a travel guide answering questions like "where to go in Korea" or "Korea travel guide" — instead it will be an invitation into the mind of a traveler (I think this is the first time I've called myself that)…
We'll be guests of Tokyo, talking about its subways, its mosque and the Muslims there, the pleasant anime girls we ran into in Akihabara, the immigrants who have lived here for years, and the museums — and then we'll put a period on the Japanese adventure.
The other day, while reflecting on the sorry fate of dentists, I came across a piece by Dr. Davut Torlak of the Social Dentists' Collective…