𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤

editor @NewSocioPersp | life’s politics

[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

My latest: Full article: Gendered violence, governance, and survival in accounts of Yezidi women under ISIS: a review essay https://t.co/bL9CCCmeqW

[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

@HazBrown1 keeping up with the kardashians

[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

@goodreads sheridan le fanu - carmilla

[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

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[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

How many times a day do you think about Alexander the Great? (from @TheEconomist) https://t.co/g5tfxn6W3f

[Simon Waldman @SimonWaldman1]

In 1927, the Jews of Istanbul constituted around 15% of the city’s total population. That’s more Jewish than New York City today. 99 years later, Jews make up barely 0.06% of Istanbul’s total. What happened to Istanbul’s Jewish community? In my new book, Looking For Elsewhere: The Jews of Turkey Then and Now I explain why this came to be while investigating what this means for Jews living there today.
#Turkey #Jews #JewishHistory #antisemitism
Here are the links to pre-order:
UK: https://t.co/U9oZS72y6O
USA: https://t.co/Ghdx6knWQf
Canada: https://t.co/I4OPtP4B8r

[NME @NME]

Official Global @thebeatles Day announced https://t.co/GUv4uyg7eM

[Mudit @muditfx]

— Žižek, on not obsessing with psychoanalyzing oneself all the time

[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

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[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

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[BURAK ISIK @theburakisik]

Mahallenin cafesinde oturmuş, cortadomu içip, strudelimi yerken ( ve bu ikiliyi fotoğraflarken ) elinde kahvesi ile Jude Law’un önümden geçmesi…

[Earth @earthcurated]

Often called the best-preserved medieval street in Europe, The Shambles in York has been a place of trade for nearly 1,000 years. Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, this historic street is so old it predates the Crusades.

[Popileaks @popileaks]

2022 yılında henüz 16 yaşındayken YouTube'a "The Backrooms" videoları yükleyen Kane Pixels, A24 desteğiyle sinemaya uyarlanan filmin henüz 20 yaşındayken yönetmenliğini üstlendi.

Yaklaşık 10 milyon dolar bütçeyle çekilen film, açılış hafta sonunda dünya çapında yaklaşık 120 milyon dolar hasılat elde etti.

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

🇹🇷 A child among old Ottoman gravestones in Vefa, Istanbul, 1962.

Photo by Ara Güler

[Backrooms Movie Updates @KaneHypeGuy]

New images of the 30,000 square feet of physical sets that were built for Backrooms.

[Mara Webster 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @Mara_Webster]

If anybody asks how I’m doing right now I’m going to send them this video as a representation of my current state of mind

[Εleni @deseydi]

26 farklı kıyafet. You can take the girl from Albania but you can’t take Albania from the girl.

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Tehran Cafe, Iran, 2001, by Abbas Attar

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

YouTuber Kane Pixels uploaded videos on The Backrooms to his YouTube channel in 2022, at age 16. Then, with the help of A24, it was converted into a movie, which he directed at age 20. The budget was about $10 million, and it grossed nearly $120 million worldwide in its opening weekend.

[𝔾𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕖𝕣 𝕌𝕝𝕒𝕤 @gulass]

Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology https://t.co/3NJ0GbYSKp

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tolstoy believed most men die without ever truly living.

He explains in his novella, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich."

Protagonist Ivan spends his entire life doing what society told him was "proper":

Get a good career, model wife, follow aristocratic social practices.

To an outsider, he looks successful, but a closer look reveals that Ivan's soul is rotting from the inside out. He grows ill, and on his deathbed, becomes haunted by a horrifying realization:

"What if my entire life was a lie?"

Ivan's life of vanity and decadence led to emptiness and loneliness. Even his friends and family don't care for the dying man.

Tolstoy's insight is that the greatest human tragedy is not death itself, but reaching death only to discover that you never truly lived at all.

Modern people tend to think of death as a distant abstraction that applies to humanity in general, but somehow not to themselves personally. Tolstoy shatters this illusion:

He shows that most know intellectually they will die, yet they live as though they are immortal. They distract themselves with status, entertainment, careerism, and social approval, such that they never have to confront what mortality actually means. But the terrifying power of death is that it destroys one's illusions.

And in that moment, all the things society told you mattered suddenly reveal themselves to be hollow.

However, Tolstoy does not present this realization as nihilistic... in fact, quite the opposite.

He suggests that only by fully confronting death can man begin to live authentically. Only when you realize your time is finite do cowardice and conformity lose their grip over you.

The fear of death, then, is not something to suppress, but something capable of awakening the soul.

A man who learns how to *die* is finally capable of learning how to live.