Ekin Erkan

Ekin Erkan is a Turkish continental philosopher and media theorist living in New York City, notable for developing Bernard Stiegler's system of "psychopolitics" and his research on François Laruelle's non-standard philosophy.

Background

Erkan's work examines the collective closure between neural networks, predictive processing, and perceptual faculties as they relate to machine intelligence and algorithmic governmentality. Erkan studied Film and Media studies as a graduate student and has a background in analytic and continental philosophy. Erkan is currently pursuing post-graduate study in Critical Philosophy at The New Centre for Research & Practice, researching under the tutelage of Iranian theory fiction pioneer Reza Negarestani. Erkan also is a columnist and critic at the art and literature journal AEQAI, with monthly contributions on contemporary art and intermedia. In addition to Erkan's work on Stiegler and Rouvroy, Erkan has published writing on François Laruelle’s non-ethics and non-aesthetics, AI and creative non-calculation, Catherine Malabou's "neuroplasticity" and "creative non-calculation," and post-Deleuzian film philosophy in publications including Cosmos & History, Cultural Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Chiasma, Rhizomes, and The Cincinnati Romance Review.

Research

Erkan is also currently working with Giacomo Gilmozzi on Bernard Stiegler’s United Nations 2020 World Summit initiative “Internation.World.” Erkan will be publishing a book on the collective closure between net.art, early digital utopianism, and the Marxist-Leninist Turkish hacktivist group Redhack in the Fall of 2019.

Works

Articles

• "Technology as the God-Command", Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 21:1 (2019), pp 201-206.
• "David Lapoujade’s Powers of Time", Media Theory (2019)
• "Psychopower and Ordinary Madness: Reticulated Dividuals in Cognitive Capitalism", Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 17:1 (2019), pp 214-241.
• "Unveiling Thomas Moynihan's Spinal Catastrophism: The Spine Considered as a Chronogenetic Media Artifact", Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 17:1 (2019), pp 564-571.
• "Review of Media heterotopias: digital effects and material labor in global film production", New Review of Film and Television Studies,(2019).
• "Control societies and machine ecology", Cultural Studies, 33:6 (2019).
• "Societies of Disindividuated Hyper-Control: On the Question of a New Pharmakon", Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 35 (2019).
• "Cryptophasia and the Question of Database", Triple Ampersand, (2019).
• "The Generic Unmasked: Reproducibility and Profanation", Triple Ampersand, (2019).
• "Review of François Laruelle's A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities", Cincinnati Romance Review, 46 (2019).
• See author's website
• See author's art criticism