BÜLENT DİKEN

Professor
 BÜLENT DİKEN

B BLOK 4. KAT 523

+90 (212) 533 65 32 / 6596

bulent.diken@khas.edu.tr

ORCID

Education

Doctorate

AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Urban Studies

Bachelor's Degree

AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Urban Planning

Master's Degree

AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Urban Planning

Research Areas

  • International Political Sociology
  • Political Philosophy
  • Cinema
  • Social and Cultural Theory
  • Urbanism

Work Experience

2016 / Continuing Kadir Has University
Professor in Social and Cultural Theory

1999 / Continuing Lancaster University
Professor in Social and Cultural Theory

Publications

  • "Feeling Real, Feeling Free: The Body, Bio-politics and the Spectacle in Blade Runner 2019 and 2049",
    Diken, Bülent; Gilloch, Graeme; , Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, (2023) Vol.7, No.1, 1-13 DOI: 10.56801/esic.v7.i1.1
  • "COMIC SOCRATES? The Clouds, Taste, and Philosophy",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Cultural Politics, (2022) Vol.18, No.2, 247-263 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-9716296
  • "“Is Something Funny, Asshole?": Joker’s Nihilist Violence"
    , Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Violence and Nihilism, (2022)
  • "Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism",
    Diken, Bülent; , Theory, Culture and Society, (2021) Vol.38, No.4, 47-69 DOI: 10.1177/0263276420978289
  • "Representations of everyday life in İnci Eviner’s We, Elsewhere: comedy, use and free will",
    Tuncer, Ezgi; Diken, Bülent; , International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (2021) Vol.17, No.3, 387-404 DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2021.1905264
  • "The collector’s world",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2020) Vol.24, No.2, 101-112 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1773650
  • "From Melling’s Harem to Eviner’s Harem: Displacement as Parrhesia",
    Diken, Bülent; Tuncer, Ezgi; , Third Text, (2019) Vol.33, No.6, 671-686 DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2019.1667622
  • "The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle",
    Diken, Bülent; , Cultural Politics, (2019) Vol.15, No.2, 184-201 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-7515042
  • "Terror as potentiality–the affective rhythms of the political",
    Diken, Bülent; Bagge Laustsen, Carsten; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2018) Vol.22, No.4, 412-426 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2019.1631998
  • "Strangers, ambivalence and social theory"
    Diken, Bulent; (2018)
  • "Migration, the sociology of mobility, and critical theory"
    , Diken, Bülent; , Mobilities and Complexities, (2018)
  • "Money, religion, and symbolic exchange in Winter Sleep",
    Diken, Bülent; , Religion and Society, (2017) Vol.8, No.1, 94-108 DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2017.080106
  • "‘Life is a state of mind’–on fiction, society and Trump",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2017) Vol.21, No.3, 257-267 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2017.1343027
  • "The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan: The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker"
    Diken, Bülent; Gilloch, Graeme; Hammond, Craig; (2017)
  • "The Map, the Territory, and the Impossibility of Painting a Priest",
    Diken, Bülent; , Critical Sociology, (2016) Vol.42, No.7-8, 1109-1124 DOI: 10.1177/0896920514551209
  • "Profanation in Spinoza and Badiou: Religion and Truth",
    Diken, Bülent; , Theory, Culture and Society, (2016) Vol.33, No.3, 27-50 DOI: 10.1177/0263276415583141
  • "Mobility and the camp"
    , Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences, (2016)
  • "Critique as justification - and beyond",
    Diken, Bülent; , Sociological Review, (2015) Vol.63, No.4, 922-939 DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12336
  • "God, politics, economy: Social theory and the paradoxes of religion"
    Diken, Bülent; (2015)
  • "Religious antinomies of post-politics"
    , Diken, Bülent; , The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics, (2015)
  • "Political spirituality: The devils, possession, and truth-telling",
    Diken, Bülent; , Cultural Politics, (2015) Vol.11, No.1, 18-35 DOI: 10.1215/17432197-2842385
  • "The emancipated city: notes on Gezi Revolts",
    Diken, Bülent; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2014) Vol.18, No.4, 315-328 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2014.959306
  • "Religious antinomies of post-politics"
    , Diken, Bülent; , The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics, (2014)
  • "Nihilism, Revolt, and the Spectacle"
    , Diken, Bülent; , The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel, (2014)
  • "Mobility and the camp"
    , Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences, (2013)
  • "Revolt, revolution, critique: The paradox of society"
    Diken, Bülent; (2012)
  • "Revolt as pure politics - And the subject",
    Diken, Bülent; , Third Text, (2011) Vol.25, No.5, 539-551 DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2011.608958
  • "Huxley's Brave new world - and ours",
    Diken, Bülent; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2011) Vol.15, No.2, 153-172 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2011.574056
  • "Fire as a metaphor of (Im)mobility",
    Diken, Bülent; , Mobilities, (2011) Vol.6, No.1, 95-102 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2011.532657
  • "Radical critique as the paradox of post-political society",
    Diken, Bulent; , Third Text, (2009) Vol.23, No.5, 579-586 DOI: 10.1080/09528820903184815
  • "The (Impossible) Society of Spite: Revisiting Nihilism",
    Diken, Bülent; , Theory, Culture & Society, (2009) Vol.26, No.4, 97-116 DOI: 10.1177/0263276409104970
  • "Nihilism"
    Diken, Bülent; (2008)
  • "Sociology through the projector"
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; (2008)
  • "Sacrifice as gothic romance",
    Diken, Bülent; , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, (2008) Vol.26, No.4, 747-751 DOI: 10.1068/d2604agc
  • "Nomadism and the Ghetto"
    , Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Constituting Communities: Political Solutions to Cultural Conflict, (2008)
  • "Climates of nihilism",
    Diken, Bulent; , Third Text, (2008) Vol.22, No.6, 719-732 DOI: 10.1080/09528820802652482
  • "Houellebecq, or, the carnival of spite",
    Diken, Bülent; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2007) Vol.11, No.1, 57-73 DOI: 10.1080/14797580601149767
  • "The camp",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, (2006) Vol.88, No.4, 443-452 DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3684.2006.00232.x
  • "From exception to rule: From 9/11 to the comedy of (t)errors",
    Diken, Bülent; , Irish Journal of Sociology, (2006) Vol.15, No.1, 81-98 DOI: 10.1177/079160350601500107
  • ""We two will never twin": Fundamentalism and the politics of security",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Global Society, (2006) Vol.20, No.2, 199-221 DOI: 10.1080/13600820600576449
  • "Society with/out organs"
    , Albertsen, Niels; Diken, Bülent; , Deleuze and the Social, (2006)
  • "From war to war: Lord of the Fdlies as the sociology of spite",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Alternatives, (2006) Vol.31, No.4, 431-452 DOI: 10.1177/030437540603100404
  • "The culture of exception: Sociology facing the camp"
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; (2005)
  • "Becoming Abject: Rape as a Weapon of War",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Body & Society, (2005) Vol.11, No.1, 111-128 DOI: 10.1177/1357034X05049853
  • "The ghost of Auschwitz",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Basse; , Journal for Cultural Research, (2005) Vol.9, No.1, 69-85 DOI: 10.1080/1479758042000331943
  • "From refugee camps to gated communities: Biopolitics and the end of the city",
    Diken, Bülent; , Citizenship Studies, (2004) Vol.8, No.1, 83-106 DOI: 10.1080/1362102042000178373
  • "Sea, sun, sex and the discontents of pleasure",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , tourist studies, (2004) Vol.4, No.2, 99-114 DOI: 10.1177/1468797604054376
  • "Artworks’ Networks: Field, System or Mediators?",
    Albertsen, Niels; Diken, Bülent; , Theory, Culture & Society, (2004) Vol.21, No.3, 35-58 DOI: 10.1177/0263276404043619
  • "7-11, 9/11, and postpolitics",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Alternatives, (2004) Vol.29, No.1, 89-113 DOI: 10.1177/030437540402900105
  • "Zones of indistinction: Security, terror, and bare life",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Space and Culture, (2002) Vol.5, No.3, 290-307 DOI: 10.1177/1206331202005003009
  • "Immigration, multiculturalism and post politics after 'nine eleven'",
    Diken, Bulent; , Third Text, (2001) Vol.15, No.57, 3-12 DOI: 10.1080/09528820108576937
  • "Postal economies of the orient",
    Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge; , Millenium, (2001) Vol.30, No.3, 761-784

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Start Date End Date
"Türkiye'de Film Çalışmaları ve "Kapitalizmin Yeni Ruhu"" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 05.07.2023
 05.01.2026
"Yirmibirinci Yüzyılda Köleliğin Kavramsallaştırılması" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 10.10.2023
 10.10.2025

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Everyday Life, Culture and Society RTC340 2024/25 Spring
Cinema and Sociology FTV534 2024/25 Spring
Social Theory CS506*2 2024/25 Fall
Cinema and Sociology RTC338 2024/25 Fall