What does a word have in common with a famous villain? I was reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula in high school. At the time, I wanted to improve my English by reading a proper classic, and what better book to pick than the one that created the first vampire? You see, I had just finished watchingContinue reading “Dracula and Baksheesh: Cultural Transports from East to West”
Category Archives: Global&Connected Bards
Hasan ile Röportaj: Sınır Dışındaki Türk Kültürü, Bir Dil Bir İnsan, Deprem Sonrası Hayat
Hasan ile Maraş’ın ilçesi Pazarcık’ta, Mart ayı 2023’te tanıştım. Beraber Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı (TOG) bünyesinde deprem gönüllüsü olarak Maraş’taki bir kampta kalıyorduk. Hasan’ın hayat hikayesi üzerine sohbet etmek isteyince, çocukluğundan deprem gönüllülüğüne uzanan yaklaşık 30 dakikalık bir röportaj yaptık. Arkamızdaki okulu ve AFAD çadırlarını görebilirsiniz. Erzak sığınağı olarak kullanılan, çatlaklarla kaplı fakat hala ayakta duranContinue reading “Hasan ile Röportaj: Sınır Dışındaki Türk Kültürü, Bir Dil Bir İnsan, Deprem Sonrası Hayat”
Global and Connected Bards
I want to create a network of people and a system of thought, that will allow the stories of the peoples of the world to be exchanged and introduced to each other again. Humans are a story telling species. News are stories. We tell each other stories of harmful events that happened in the past,Continue reading “Global and Connected Bards”
Ancestral Recall
Humans tell stories Humans tell stories of their ancestors and of ages long gone. Stories of the ancient past are so powerful, that nationalism used them to craft nation identities, with which they could bring the people together and lead them. Ancient Danish Kings claimed divine ancestry through stories, reinforcing their positions as rulers byContinue reading “Ancestral Recall”
thinking in dominoes
initiate big change: as smaller blocks tip the bigger ones over, creating an avalanche effect that increases in intensity, which eventually creates big change; sending shockwaves throughout the world and throughout centuries… there is no knowing how big the end block is going to be; you might even tip over reality… Hello! This was inspiredContinue reading “thinking in dominoes”
Humans are a Story Telling Species
the nature of life, and the (retelling of) and the (conveying of information about) past events I watched on the news today that someone in the US killed other people, then killed themselves. It happened recently, so there is nothing more in the story; just that someone killed other people then killed themselves. The storyContinue reading “Humans are a Story Telling Species”
Start of Something Big
I have embarked on a quest, to create… “the Global & Connected Bards” I have a series of essays I started writing, that will establish the foundations of global and connected bardistry. (15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).Continue reading “Start of Something Big”
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