Ekin Erkan

Ekin Erkan is a continental philosopher and media theorist interested in the collective closure between neural networks, predictive processing, and perceptual faculties as they relate to machine intelligence. Erkan studied Film and Media studies student as a graduate student and 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. In addition to their work on aesthetics and philosophy of art, Erkan has published writing on François Laruelle’s “non-ethics,” AI and creative non-calculation, Bernard Stiegler's pharmacology, and post-Deleuzian film theory in peer-reviewed publications including the Cincinnati Romance Review, Chiasma, and Rhizomes. 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-Leninst Turkish hacktivist group Redhack in the Fall of 2019.