Oğuz Tutal – Systems Die as Well as Ideas

Guest: Oğuz Tutal
Title of The Work: Systems Die as Well as Ideas
Original Title: Düşüncelerin Yanısıra Sistemler de Ölürler
Genre: Prose Writing

In addition to people, animals and ideas, systems also die. Then new ones come along and fill the void left by the previous one. When someone or something kills someone or something, the blame tends to fall on the weakest and easiest to bite. It is easier to blame a politician, a terrorist, a disease, a weapon. However, the truths that are known to everyone, but not spoken by anyone, are kept secret like a secret, and it is hesitated to talk about them in public. One of these truths is that systems are the most deadly, fragile and threatening instruments. Devamını Oku…

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Released in 2018, the film Oiktos is the story of addiction to pain. I will briefly tell you about the film and try to write about what it made me feel and the emergence of oiktos.

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