Education
Ph.D., Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A., Social and Political Sciences, Sabancı University
Bio
My work focuses on temporality in 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
My current work examines unconscious temporalities and makes a pivot towards speed as a politico-technical/ontological category.
In Learning in the New Dispersed Prime Time (2026), I analyzed post-disciplinary time in education and the transhistorical role of the ancient strategy game of Go in the development of artificial intelligence.
In Political Sociology (2025), I offer an open-access textbook that responds to the organizational changes brought by networked new media to the study of political phenomena. I complement the sociology of the state, social movements and power with the cultural anthropology of political subjectivities, political theories of violence, psychoanalytic interpretations of desire and affect, and media theories of film and algorithms. A philosophical questioning of the tension between historical time and what Nietzsche calls the untimely is maintained throughout to avoid the reification of socio-political categories.
I conducted intermittent fieldwork between 2011 and 2020 on forms of direct action. I published my ethnographic reflections emerging from this participant observation on the shifting field (spacetime) of political action through algorithmic social media feeds in Technical Temporalities of the Transitional Protest Movements (2024).
My theorization of nonhuman temporality through the case of Facebook's News Feed is published in Subjectivity (2023). Here, I analyzed the micropolitics of the normalization of algorithmic temporality and how classical forms of time such as biography, narrative form and subjective time-consciousness are encapsulated within a technology of flow whereby a new political economy of time emerges.
My two articles on Nietzsche condense my research on temporality and power. I make attempts at creating textual rhythms in which the assumptions, discoveries and open questions of multiple subdisciplines are brought together to create a temporal intensity that Nietzsche was interested in rendering experiential. Nietzschean lineages running from Heidegger, Bataille and Foucault to feminisms, media studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis and cultural studies are mobilized in this pursuit.
At Noon: (Post)Nihilistic Temporalities in the Age of Machine-Learning Algorithms That Speak (2023)
In my collaborations, I engage in the reinvention of the classical modality of philosophy as conversation by bringing together media studies and psychoanalysis, among other fields, to bear on the questions raised by new media environments. Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative (2023), Worlding Worlds with Words in these Times of Datafication (2016)