Education
Ph.D., Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A., Social and Political Sciences, Sabancı University
Bio
Dr Işsevenler's transdisciplinary work focuses on temporality across political culture, technology and philosophy.
Courses Taught
Sociology of Time and Speed, Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Violence, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Mass Media and Popular Culture, Foundations of Social Theory, Macaulay Seminar 4: Shaping Future of New York City, Macaulay Seminar 2: Immigrants and Culture of New York City, Social Class in US, Senior Seminar: New Media and Social Time, Sociology of Internet and Digital Media.
Scholarly Work
Learning in the New Dispersed Prime Time, in Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions, University of Minnesota Press
Political Sociology (Open-access, CUNY Pressbooks)
Technical Temporalities of the Transitional Protest Movements International Political Anthropology
Ashes to ashes, digit to digit: the nonhuman temporality of Facebook’s Feed Subjectivity
At Noon: (Post)Nihilistic Temporalities in The Age of Machine-Learning Algorithms That Speak The Agonist
An event-without-witness: a Nietzschean theory of the digital will to power as the will to temporalize The Agonist
Co-authored
Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative, Routledge
Worlding Worlds with Words in these Times of Datafication Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Honors and Awards
New Media Lab, The Dewey Digital Teaching Award
Research Summary
Dr. Işsevenler's theoretical research focuses on relations of power emerging at the intersection of historical time and digital time. He recently finished an open-access text-book on political sociology. The book rethinks the sociology of state, social movements, political technologies and violence from the perspective of networked digital environments. 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 DeepMinds's AlphaGo.