Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 3.5 (Day 3)

D3-S3-D310

15 May 2026, 13:15

D310 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 3.5 (Day 3): Felsefe / Philosophy

• Çağlar Koç (İstanbul Topkapı University))

Crisis of Critical Thought: Bruno Latour and Poststructuralism (D3-S3-D310)

Ataberk Çetinkaya (Middle East Technical University)

15/05/2026, 13:15

Oral Presentation

In the opening section of We Have Never Been Modern (1991), titled “Crisis” Bruno Latour contends that critical thought has reached an impasse because it remains trapped within three mutually exclusive methodological frameworks: naturalization (aligned with scientific realism), socialization (linked to social constructivism), and deconstruction (rooted in poststructuralist critique). For...

The Crisis of Reterritorialization: Becoming-Weird and Becoming Eerie (D3-S3-D310)

Yakup Atamer Aykaç (Cappadocia University)

15/05/2026, 13:35

Oral Presentation

As we are well aware since Marx, capitalism has been a mode of production which, unlike the previous ones, functions as a machine that operates by capturing ever more layers of everyday life, can only sustain itself through the crises which it causes itself. Even though these crises are caused by an economic source in the classical meaning of the term (capitalist exploitation and capital...

Necropolitics, Anthropocene and Sea: How the Agency of Nature Negated by the Politics of Death (D3-S3-D310)

Pınar Karababa Demircan (Istanbul Topkapı University)

15/05/2026, 13:55

Oral Presentation

Among the different definitions of politicizing the death, an inclination occurred between necropolitics -often directed to humans- and anthropocene -often directed from humans- that renders the agency of nature or a non-human agency as a smaller category to an absolute passivity. Only in the frame of a passive existence could natural elements be named as dead. On the other hand, even this...