In this episode of Red Thread Issue 5 interviews, Ahmet Ersoy, who contributed to the issue with his text titled “Neo-Ottomanism in the Age of Digital Media”, examines the effects of social isolation, estrangement and de-skilling experienced in the contemporary world and intensified through the pandemic. By revisiting this text, Ahmet Ersoy and Zeyno Pekünlü discuss the construction of organized loneliness by networked environments and the possibilities of subversion against the uniformized communications of commercialized digital media.
Edited by Mert Sarısu.
Read the issue 5 here: https://dev.red-thread.org/en/current-issue
“Neo-Ottomanism in the Age of Digital Media” by Ahmet Ersoy: https://dev.red-thread.org/en/neo-ottomanism-in-the-age-of-digital-media
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