Epicurus’ Quantum Philosophy
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
Quantum methods, based on differential equations, proved invaluable for many applications, ranging from building complex machines to mapping the motions of celestial objects. They represent a decisive advance in humanity's ability to understand and quantify the multi-dimensional reality. Epicurus’ groundbreaking reflection in these fields influence the fields of applied mathematics today, profoundly shaping the scientific understanding of the solid forms that make up the universe.
Genocide or Suicide? Massive Deaths of the Non-Muslims in the Ottoman and Turkey
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
This article looks from a psychoanalytic-cultural approach to the ideologies and economy-politics in the truths and narratives around these places and events concerning ethnic, religious and national identities, and offers two opinions into a psycho-cultural narrative of parks, monumental places and genocides in Turkey. The complex is the collision of the secular and the sacred, for which the article presents a detailed interpretation of the material/wordly and the religious/otherworldly.
Department of Mockumentary Sciences
(2025)
author(s): Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
In the humanities and cultural sciences, the humor for fictionalizing a “truth” is described as “mocking”. Though it is more encountered in human sciences, this mode of structuration of events, happenings is also a significant concept in the STEM sciences. Mocking what is the kernel of truth of the Real, and what could be or what should be done about what is presented as the origin or the truth.
United States of Eureka
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
There has been an overwhelming mediatization of corruption, pandemics, wars and conflicts for decades going on through the 2000s. When the “Israel-Hamas War” had just begun in the fall of 2023, for instance, the mainstream media was covering it with wordy psycho-politics. Instead, what I suggest in this article is a detour to a centennial relevance for the psychopolitics of Israeli, Turkey, the USA and current global realities. A relevance that was missing in the psychopolitical realities of countries founded in the interwar and post-war world. Comparing two countries of these stages, Israel to Turkey, I think they are similar in regards to the constitution of national identity politics. It is Sigmund Freud’s relevance shrouded in the shadows for a century, which is not merely a relevance of his own. His work is as powerful a founder of psychoanalysis as the foundations of countries like Turkey and Israel.
La Mort Freudienne de Jean-Luc Godard
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
Jean-Luc Godard a décrit le film comme un “diagnostic médical”, remettrant les images d’archives silencieuses de Sigmund Freud avant son suicide avec une morphine. En gardant le fait de pertes mondiales en temps de guerre et de virus, cet article retrace les itinéraires du suicide dans la visite d’Agnès Varda du manoir de Godard en Suisse dans i (2017) avant sa mort et le suicide assistré de Godard.
The Film Pontypool (2009) and the Deconstruction of the Global Language
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
In these days when it is not understood that cinema is an entertaining, commercial monotheism as well as an art in the making, and originality is starting to disappear, whether in domestic or foreign cinema, we either wait for festivals or DVDs to see a film that comes with a ‘genuinely original idea’. The situation is even more worrying when it comes to a genre film. These thoughts, which I refer to the repetitive zombie and horror cinema, are inadequate in the film of deadly words, Pontypool (2009), where Canadian director Bruce McDonald and Tony Burgess, who adapted the script from his own novel, dismantle the structure of the Englishness that has permeated the global culture, can be considered as one of the original genre films, like those of George A. Romero, that strives to create thought and meaning rather than entertainment.
