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Kültürel Ağları ve Hoşnutsuzluklarını Haritalama

Year 2019, Vol 18 IDEA Special Issue, 1 - 15, 31.12.2019
https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.603867

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‘Ağ,’ güncel birçok
eğitim ve araştırmanın aracı ve odağı olan güçlü bir kavram ve metafordur. Biz kendi
dünyamızı ‘(b)ağlanmış’ olarak tasavvur ederiz.
Birbirine
bağlı, retiküler, düğümlü veya katılımcı eserlerde, bu ağ, aynı zamanda,
estetik ya da biçimsel olanaklara da sahiptir.
Edebi çalışmalar
içerisinde ağlara olan ilgi, bir ‘sosyal metnin’ tek yazara, özerk bireye ve
destansı dehaya yöneltilmiş olan modası geçmiş bakışı kısmen yerinden ettiği
düşünülen bir araç olarak kültürel tarih ve sosyolojiden tartışmalı bir şekilde
ortaya çıkmıştır. Okuyucuların ve metinlerin bir araya gelerek bir anlam, duygu
ve yargı ağı kurdukları düşünülür. Acaba bu kavramı hafife mi alıyoruz? Acaba
bu kavram, bir araç olarak güçlü olduğu halde, aynı zamanda biraz körelmiş
midir? Herhangi bir kültürel ağı, haritalamada ya da tam olarak açıklamada hiç
başarılı olabilir miyiz? Acaba metafor kendi bünyesinde yakalamayı umduğu
akışkan formlar için çok karmaşık veya düğümlü müdür? Bu metafor hangi
boşlukları, bağlantı eksiklerini unutmaktadır? Kendi profesyonel ağlarımızın
bağlamında olan bir ağ kavramına, kopuk olan ağı unutma pahasına, gereğinden
fazla mı değer veriyoruz? Kopukluk fikirlerinden kopmak son demokratik
süreçlerin nasıl geliştiğine dair şoku ve şaşkınlığı açıklıyor mu?
Bu çalışma, başka konuların yanı sıra, 2. Dünya Savaşı’nın patlak vermesi
ile ortaya çıkan kültür ağları ile değer oluşumları ve bozulmaları göz önünde
bulunduran araştırmama ve Dijital Sosyal Bilimler’deki veri temsiline atıfta
bulunarak bahsettiğim sorulara yönelecektir.

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Mapping Cultural Networks and its Discontents

Year 2019, Vol 18 IDEA Special Issue, 1 - 15, 31.12.2019
https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.603867

Abstract

The ‘network’ is a powerful concept and metaphor, a
tool for and focus of much recent research and scholarship. We envisage our
very world as ‘networked.’ ‘The network’ also has aesthetic or formal
possibilities: in the interconnected, reticular, knotted or participatory
work. Interest in networks from within literary study arose arguably out
of cultural history and sociology, where a ‘social text’ was imagined, partly
as a means to displace an outmoded focus on the single author, the autonomous individual,
the heroic genius. Readers and texts are imagined together forming
‘networks’ of meaning, feeling, and judgement. But do we take the concept
for granted? Though powerful as a tool, is it also somewhat blunt? Can
we ever succeed in ‘mapping’ a cultural network, or describing one
accurately? Is the metaphor too knotty or nodal for the fluid forms it
hopes to catch in its structures? What absences does this metaphor
forget? Do we overvalue the notion of a network from the context of our
own professional networks, at the cost of forgetting the disconnected? Does
disconnection from the ideas of disconnection explain the shock and surprise at
how recent democratic processes unfolded? Referring to my research that
considers formations and disruptions of cultural networks and of value at the
outbreak of World War 2, and to representations of data in the Digital
Humanities, my paper addresses these questions amongst others. 

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  • Charleton, W. (1659). Natural history of nutrition, life, and voluntary motion. London.
  • Derrida, J. (1980). La carte postale. Paris, France: Flammarion.
  • Donne, J. (2012). Songs and sonnets, edited by Helen Gardner. Oxford, UKL Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. doi: 10.1093/actrade/9780198118350.book.
  • Fordham, F. (2018). The anatomy of moments. Modernist Cultures, 13(2), 165-186. doi: 10.3366/mod.2018.0204
  • Fordham, F. (Forthcoming). The Reception of Finnegans Wake in 1939. New Studies in James Joyce. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. *
  • Foucault, M. (2002). Archaeology of knowledge. (A.M. Sheridan S. Trans.) London: Routledge.
  • Foucault, M. (1983). “Why study power” in Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Dreyfus H. and Rabinow P. (Eds.) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Smith, B. H. (2012). Dolls, demons and DNA, review of Bruno Latour. On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods. London Review of Books, 34(5), 25-26.
  • Harary, F. (1979). Topics in graph theory. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
  • Joyce, J. (2000). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Oxford, UK: Oxford World Classics.
  • Latour, B. (1993). We have never been Modern. (Catherine P. Trans.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: introducing Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Levine, C. (2017). Forms: whole, rhythm, hierarchy, network. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • McGann, J. (1987). An interview with Jerome McGann on Textual Scholarship as Literary History and Ideology Critique. Social Epistemology, 1 (2), 163-173. Doi: 10.1080/02691728708578428
  • Meaney, G. & Greene, D. (2015). http://www.nggprojectucd.ie/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man/
  • Moore, S. (2015). http://digitalcavendish.org/original-research/cavendish-network/
  • Newman, M., Duncan J. W., & Albert-László B. (2006). The structure and dynamics of Networks. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • “Network.” (2010). Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Pentland, A. (2014) Social Physics: how good ideas spread – the lessons from the new science. New York: Penguin Press
  • Scott, B.K. (ed.) (1990). The gender of Modernism: a Critical Anthology. Bloomington, Ind: Indian University Press.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section English Language and Literature
Authors

Finn Fordham 0000-0002-4466-2001

Publication Date December 31, 2019
Submission Date September 16, 2019
Published in Issue Year 2019 Vol 18 IDEA Special Issue

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APA Fordham, F. (2019). Mapping Cultural Networks and its Discontents. Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 18, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.603867