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IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE
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This article explores how depressive realism and antinatalism are represented in two popular series: True Detective (2014) and A Round of Applause (2024), a crime drama and a dark comedy, while arguing that the representation of antinatalism is rare because it conflicts with reproductive futurism, optimism bias, and the structural demands of conventional storytelling. Antinatalism, as a philanthropic philosophical position, is concerned with the interests of a potential child and with regard to fiction, this means the position lacks a subject position that can be depicted in natural fictional worlds. True Detective explicitly engages with both depressive realism and antinatalism through one of its protagonists, Rust Cohle. Ultimately, however, his pessimistic worldview is contained by an emotional transformation and a renewal of hope. A Round of Applause avoids this retraction by assigning consciousness and voice to a fetus, constructing an unnatural or impossible character and an anti-mimetic space. Once this pre-existence subject position is established, the antinatalist perspective can be articulated without being reduced to a pathological condition or a trauma response.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Kuzey Amerika Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Kültürleri, Ekran ve Medya Kültürü, Türkiye Sahası Yeni Türk Edebiyatı
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Haziran 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
9 Nisan 2026
Kabul Tarihi
21 Haziran 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2
APA
Özmen, C. Ö. (2026). IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 9(2), 795-805. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1926278
AMA
1.Özmen CÖ. IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. UDEKAD. 2026;9(2):795-805. doi:10.37999/udekad.1926278
Chicago
Özmen, Cansu Özge. 2026. “IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 9 (2): 795-805. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1926278.
EndNote
Özmen CÖ (01 Haziran 2026) IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 9 2 795–805.
IEEE
[1]C. Ö. Özmen, “IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE”, UDEKAD, c. 9, sy 2, ss. 795–805, Haz. 2026, doi: 10.37999/udekad.1926278.
ISNAD
Özmen, Cansu Özge. “IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 9/2 (01 Haziran 2026): 795-805. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1926278.
JAMA
1.Özmen CÖ. IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. UDEKAD. 2026;9:795–805.
MLA
Özmen, Cansu Özge. “IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, c. 9, sy 2, Haziran 2026, ss. 795-0, doi:10.37999/udekad.1926278.
Vancouver
1.Cansu Özge Özmen. IN POTENTIA: ANTINATALISM IN TRUE DETECTIVE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. UDEKAD. 01 Haziran 2026;9(2):795-80. doi:10.37999/udekad.1926278