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E. Efe Çakmak
(b.1979 in Izmir) studied philosophy at EUP and English literature at Istanbul University. He is currently doing his graduate work in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia Universtiy. He was editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based philosophical Journal Cogito until 2006. Apart from his Turkish translations of works by authors like Joseph Conrad, William Golding, and J.M. Coetzee, he has published philosophical essays, articles, and short stories in various journals and newspapers.
Eurozine Articles
The Armenian genocide: Issues of responsibility and democracy
An interview with Susan Neiman and Andreas Huyssen
Two public intellectuals discuss the role of the public sphere in guiding a politics of memory in relation to Turkey's fraught Armenian issue. [Catalan version added] [more]
Oh balmy breath...
A tribute to Hrant Dink
Murdered journalist Hrant Dink contaminated the pure categories of Armenian and Turk, Christian and Muslim. But how can we make sense of Dink's murder without falling prey to instrumental reasoning that claims that Turkish democracy has also been shot dead? [more]
There is never a psychopathology without the social context
An interview with Juliet Mitchell
British feminist and psychoanalyst Juliet Mitchell talks to Cogito about her role in the British New Left and her intellectual trajectory from Marxism to psychoanalysis. [more]
Myth, word, and writing
An interview with Jack Goody
On structuralist approaches to myth-making in oral cultures; the pitfalls of biologistic theories of language development; and how the difference between "naming" and "discovering" affects an understanding of western ideology. [more]
On "Snow White"
Suicide attacks in Istanbul and the need for poetry
How art and poetry can twist our preconceptions on acts of terror. [more]