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Talha
Işsevenler

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Education

B.A. Social and Political Sciences, Sabanci University

Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY

Bio

Dr Issevenler's transdisciplinary work focuses on temporality across political culture, technology and philosophy.  

Courses Taught

Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Violence, Urban Sociology

Scholarly Work

Technical Temporalities of the Transitional Protest Movements https://www.politicalanthropology.org/images/PDF_IPA/2024-2/IPA3410Issevenler.pdf

Ashes to ashes, digit to digit: the nonhuman temporality of Facebook’s Feed https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41286-023-00173-8

At Noon: (Post)Nihilistic Temporalities in The Age of Machine-Learning Algorithms That Speak https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/article/view/3076

An event-without-witness: a Nietzschean theory of the digital will to power as the will to temporalize https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/article/view/2753

Research Summary

Dr Issevenler's theoretical research focuses on the relations of power emerging at the intersection of historical time and digital time. He currently finishes an open-access text-book on political sociology. The book focuses on the sociology of state and the relation of power in the age of digital networks. He is also finishing a project on the impact of algorithms on learning by analyzing the paradigmatic example how the ancient game of Go is transcribed into artificial intelligence by Google's AlphaGo.