Utopias-Where Politics and Desire Intersect

Compiled by: Aksu Bora, Kadir Dede

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

“Utopias are largely for the unhappy of the present, who are dissatisfied with the conditions in which they live. And every age creates its present unhappy people.” - Murathan Mungan -

“What we call utopia begins with the identification of a bad thing under all circumstances and continues by asking the question of what is good in order to abolish this bad. In other words, something where there is no definition of what is bad and no idea of what is good is not a utopia.” - Nilgün Toker -

Articles that travel the routes of utopia in daily life, politics, philosophy, literature and cinema, ranging from a material and cold universe such as the "workplace" to our various emotions, imaginations about gender identity, and cyborgs... At a time when utopias are talked about more, dystopias and their ties with utopias are discussed. without neglecting… The book, which tries to bring utopia down from the abstract, naive, impossible place it evokes in everyday language ("non-existent place"!), to the world, to life, among us, carries the excitement, curiosity and enthusiasm that this view brings.

In the compilation prepared by Aksu Bora and Kadir Dede, Meral Akbaş, Polat S. Alpman, Kazım Ateş, Ayşe Devrim Başterzi, Aksu Bora, Nihan Bozok, Olga Selin Hünler Çidam, Kadir Dede, Yücel Demirer, Demet Şahende Dinler, Emre Erdoğan, Gökçe Contributions include Zeybek Kabakcı, Onur Eylül Kara, Özge Kelekçi, Burak Özsoy, Çağla Karabağ Sarı, Pınar Uyan Semerci, Özgür Taburoğlu, Nilgün Toker and Tolga Ulusoy.

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 391

Size: 13 x 19.5