Emre Önkibar

What is the master-signifier of today's global struggle?

Love to hate... Such a contradiction!

Hate is the opposite of other-self.

The reason why we always carry on is deeply seated in the negation of actuality:
"I'll do my loving in the winter"

A sunny day may be inspirational, and you look above to see if the new world is out there somewhere...

Gnostik-maddeci ütopya vs. gnostik-ütopik post-hümanizm

Her şeyin kendi zamanı vardır. Adını bilmediğin zamanlarda geçer varoluş. Ruhuna dokunan bir şarkının zamanıdır bu. Adını bildiğin zamanlar da vardır. Adım attığın taş kaldırımın zamanıdır bu. Geçmiş biter gelecek gelir, sen bugünsün...

İsyan(revolt) sözcüğü, keşfetmek, ferahlamak, dönüştürmek anlamlarına gelen Sanskritçe bir kökten gelir. Bu anlam aynı zamanda güneşin etrafındaki dünyanın devrimine de işaret eder. En nihayetinde sonsuz kere dönüyor dünya ve bunun bir parçasıyız, biz galaksinin isyancılarıyız...

All power to the imagination...

Hope principle
Utopian impulse
Oi va voi

Mystery and science are not two opposing poles; rather, they are two phenomena that complement each other. Reality is both mysterious and scientific. Mystery pushes the boundaries of science and drives it forward. Science sheds light on mystery and makes it more comprehensible.

It can be:
Zen takes and gives.
It holds a logic beyond feelings.
Zen is both real and imagined.
Zen simply says, "Be."

waking half-drunk in a strange pad
making it out to the cool gray
san francisco dawn –
white gulls over white houses,
fog down the bay,
tamalpais a fresh green hill in the new sun,
driving across the bridge in a beat old car
to work.

As we hoe the field
let sweet potato grow.
And as sit us all down when we may
To consider the Dharma
bring with a flower and a glimmer.
Let us all sleep in peace together.

In a realm where it's nearly impossible to tell friend from foe, we must not forget the “lesser victims” — those aligned with the system or its potential allies. True well-being and a quality social circle stem from this awareness. In the end, what’s better than sharing books, songs, and films?

If you were in pursuit of sorrow, you'd always try to smile. When you were desperate, that effort — whose source you never knew, yet kept you alive — would become your only friend. And the road was winding. In the end, you began to love the uncertainty. Even if just once, just to be able to live.

Bu kadar konuşan insanlardan tüm hayatları boyu çıkan tek kelime “ben”. O kadar bilgesin ki yükseğe bakarsın, alçağa bakmak bilgelik değil midir?” “Asla akıllılığın çıplak tepelerinde durma, ahmaklığın yeşil vadilerine in.”

I feel ancient, as though I had
Lived many lives.
And may never now know
If I am a fool
Or have done what my
karma demands.

And to act, accordingly.

Totally get what you're saying. Lacan is tough, but “it’s impossible to say everything” nails the bind. Still, we have to try. As you said, “free [leader]” gave a target—now it’s on us to find the words, and the courage, to say everything to the machine.

What I meant was pointing to shared existential threats—modern slavery, indebtedness, basic human rights—we all face but fail to confront. Beyond national traumas, we seek a singular, collective response—an aufhebung toward global reckoning with the Real.

In the framework where modernity traps the individual between four walls, it is liberating not to feel like a depressive, exhausted, and depleted empirical-psychological category, but rather as if standing at the edge of an ontological limitation something closer to existential unease.

Because when we lose control and fear keeps growing, we have no choice but to wish ourselves a graceful downfall.

The end of the world is approaching, and there are very few people left who still listen to Rock 'n Roll... The new paradigm is confusing, and in this age of contradictions, reaching the truth is a tough struggle.

Dictator Erdoğan’s regime crumbles beneath the weight of its own paranoia. Arresting opposition leaders won’t stop the tide of resistance—it only proves his fear of the people’s voice. The streets roar louder than his cowardice. Power to the people. #OpTurkey

Depth of political debate and collective will is replaced by fleeting, individual “poses.” This functions precisely as one of the system’s mechanisms for absorbing and neutralizing critique.

Instagram’s hegemony has transformed digital platforms in its image. This turns political engagement increasingly into a “performative” show of stance. What matters is not what you say, but how you look and how many “likes” you get.

9. The Triumph of Performative Individualism:
The shift of activism’s center of gravity from platforms like Twitter—once full of collective debate and organizing potential—to Instagram, where personal image and visibility reign, is telling.

However, no doubt, new forms of action and underground networks that will ignite the next wave of rebellion are already taking shape. Perhaps this hidden movement is the only way not to lose hope.

Perhaps, for now, this was the realistic path. For a popular movement to endure, a progressive and vibrant philosophy/ideology/organization is needed. What is still missing may be precisely this.