Issue 5 Interview with Jelena Vesić and Vladimir Jerić Vlidi

Red Thread Issue 5 Interview with Jelena Vesić & Vladimir Jerić Vlidi by Zeyno Pekünlü, edited by Mert Sarısu

In the first in the series of Red Thread Issue 5 interviews we present you with the extensive discussion with the issue editors Jelena Vesić and Vladimir Jerić Vlidi. Run by the artist and Red Thread Editorial Board member Zeyno Pekünlü, the interview covers the current global media context, particular geopolitical positions, and provides the connections with the texts selected for the Red Thread issue 5.

Edited by Mert Sarısu.

Read the Editors’s Note by Jelena and Vlidi Read the issue 5 here About Red Thread e-Journal

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Issue No 5: Interview With Geert Lovink

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From the Archives: Vilém Flusser – 1988 Interview About Technical Revolution

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Sad by Design

Of course sadness already existed before social media. And even when the smart phone is safely out of reach, you can still feel down and out. Let’s step out of the determinist merry-go-round that all too quickly spins from capitalist alienation and disastrous states of mind to blaming Silicon Valley for your misery.

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Neo-Ottomanism in the Age of Digital Media

Since the end of the nineteenth century various thinkers, from Nietzsche to Walter Benjamin, observed the profound impact of the modern Capitalist system on the human perceptual field, with its consumption-oriented machinery generating endless flow and mobility.

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From Seekers of Truth to Masters of Power: Televised Stories in a Post-Truth World

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The Uncensored Censors: How We Say ‘Appropriation’ Now?

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The Transformation of Turkey’s Media under the AKP’s Authoritarian Turn

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Issue 5 – Editor’s note

There is so much to say about how we got to where we are at this point. So many trajectories to explore and inspect, so many turns, events, updates, historical breaks to take into the account, so much of the latest development to consider. When we started to explore the collapse of (especially media) culture of the previous decade, the thread was unwoven that has led through the labyrinth of everywhere; we could follow it back to economy, technology, politics, art, education...