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Hakan Topal

@hakantopal.info
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Art, Politics, and Other Things in Life 🚴 Artist, Engineer, Sociologist (PhD), and Professor of a few things at SUNY Purchase hakantopal.info

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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 30/09/2026
I feel like LinkedIn is more toxic than X right now. In an aggressively neoliberal way.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 29/09/2026
There is a direct correlation between religiosity and corruption (moral, legal, and economic).
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3dlanyard.bsky.social @3dlanyard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's largely inexcusable that any conscious person is still using twitter. Journalist made twitter, not the other way around. The lack of critical media literacy is why so many journalists don't get this.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 25/08/2026
Free Osman Kavala!
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 05/08/2026
The New School is heading to a dismal future. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
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He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 05/08/2026
The announced "legal framework" between the PKK and the Turkish State is an important milestone, and yet, the current Islamo-fascist authoritarianism won't provide any meaningful democratic opening. A temporary sectarian alliance will bring some relief; that is all.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 05/08/2026
🔥😻🧿
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 19/07/2026
Go Spain!
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Read about the trial of Imamoglu who would have been Turkey’s next president but has been behind bars precisely because of that. By @kayagenc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger
The long read: He was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019, and had announced his candidacy for the 2029 presidential elections. But Ekrem İmamoğlu is now behind bars, and his trial, on charges including...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An informative, incisive interview with the brilliant thinker and writer Ece Temelkuran on fascism in the world today and what rebuilding Home means in these troubled times. Check it out.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtXQ...
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Rebuilding 'Home' in the 21st Century (w/ Ece Temelkuran) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A Danish journalist, Rasmus Svaneborg, asked NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: "You sit next to Trump while he talks about taking over Greenland or publicly humiliates Spain. Doesn't it affect your self-respect when you just sit there and say nothing?"
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 18/06/2026
Lol- Zohran is with an old school camcorder at the #KnicksParade - such a hipster.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 27/05/2026
This vote would not have passed without the courage, clarity, and solidarity of our incredible Jewish comrades.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 27/05/2026
The Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli goods Yessss!!! 67%–31%, with 2% abstaining. 4,551 pro-boycott 2,083 anti-boycott (6,772 total present)
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 24/05/2026
What is happening in Turkey matters to all of us. Geriatric social democrats refuse to pass power to the next generation and collaborate with Islamists. Sounds too close to home? It is.
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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The leader of the opposition party in Turkey on TOMA (anti-riot police vehicle).He said "From now on, we are only in the streets.” This is a fight where only one can win! And this is why antagonism cannot be eliminated from democracy. Enemies of democracy aren't our friends or legitimate adversaries
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 23/05/2026
Just like Chuck Schumer for the US, KK is a geriatric disease for Turkey.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 21/05/2026
The so-called “peace process” was invented to split the opposition!
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 21/05/2026
The current state of Turkey is much much worse than any post coup d’etat era, imho…
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A new project educators can use to teach the many ways AI resistance takes shape: "Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope."
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AI Resist List
AI Resist List website
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 13/05/2026
How liberals monetized trauma: Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics
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How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/04/2026
The rampant corporatization and “administrification” of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
hyperallergic.com
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 28/04/2026
"A study by the American Association of University Professors has shown that between 1976 and 2011, non-faculty professional positions, especially in student services and administration, grew by roughly 369%, while full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty grew by only 23%."
hyperallergic.com
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 28/04/2026
New in @hyperallergic.com “The Death of the Art School” I write about corporatization, 'administrification', precarity, and repression in the post-Gaza context and why art schools matter as spaces where artistic and political imagination. hyperallergic.com/the-death-of...
hyperallergic.com
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 28/04/2026
New in @hyperallergic.com “The Death of the Art School” I write about corporatization, 'administrification', precarity, and repression in the post-Gaza context and why art schools matter as spaces where artistic and political imagination. hyperallergic.com/the-death-of...
hyperallergic.com
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 23/04/2026
A Turkish Patriot’s Duty: On the Armenian Genocide - hakantopal.info/a-turkish-pa...
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A Turkish Patriot’s Duty: On the Armenian Genocide - hakantopal.info/a-turkish-pa...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hasan Piker is constantly being viciously smeared or abstracted out of his humanity. It's all tiring, unproductive, fake. I visited him, to get below the sensation. We spoke about faith, body image, politics, his controversial comments, and so much more. Inside the Heart and Mind of Hasan Piker:
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Inside the Heart and Mind of Hasan Piker
Prem Thakker traveled to LA to go beyond the media outrage and talk directly with the Twitch streamer and prominent leftist about religion, politics, war… and whether he’d go on Tucker Carlson’s show.
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gnarlygale.bsky.social @gnarlygale.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
the ivy league is the principal incubator of epstein class degenerates
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 16/04/2026
DEI for conservative idiots? Well done @harvard.edu
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 12/04/2026
JD Vance should visit Erdogan as soon as he can. Thank you!
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 12/04/2026
Yessssss!!!!
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 07/04/2026
Versions of Zionism applied at home.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Some Iranians are reportedly forming human chains near key infrastructure points, including a nuclear power plant.
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Human chain in front of the Kazerun combined cycle power plant
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 07/04/2026
Genocidal maniacs are too much, even for this crew!
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 07/04/2026
Chuck Schumer is a useless piece of shit.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 07/04/2026
Trump is an actual genocidal maniac, puppeteer by other genocidal fundamentalist maniacs. This is fuckin serious!
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 07/04/2026
Trump provides perfect justifications for Putin’s war crimes, for sure.
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 02/04/2026
War crimes!!! International humanitarian law prohibits attacks on civilian objects. The Geneva Conventions, specifically Articles 51 and 52. Article 52 defines civilian objects as anything that does not make an "effective contribution to military action." Attacking them is prohibited.
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
People turned up in Turkey’s Kadıköy in the rain yesterday to protest the jailing of journalists İsmail Arı, Alican Uludağ, and many others. Demonstrators were met with a police barricade. Turkey ranked 159 out of 180 in 2025 RSF press freedom index. www.birgun.net/haber/no-bar...
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No barricade can stand in the way of the truth
The police refused to grant permission for a march planned in Kadıköy in protest against the pressure and arrests targeting journalists. Journalists made a statement amidst the police barricades, list...
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 29/03/2026
From @jayapal.house.gov: “I warned Biden and Harris directly: Our silence on Gaza was morally, legally, and politically wrong. We were told it wasn't in the data. That wasn't strategy – it was risk aversion dressed up as wisdom. Democrats cannot make that same mistake again this midterm season.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
No ICE. No war. No Kings. #nokings
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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 26/03/2026
Hirsiz degil “hirsiz var” diyen…..
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/03/2026
‘Habermas first lit my path as a critical theorist. I remain deeply grateful for that. But over the years the light he cast flickered and waned – until, with his stance on Gaza, it seemed to go out.’ Nancy Fraser on the philosopher, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas
Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2026
that feels like something you say when you're wearing a wire
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New York Times with their finger on the pulse.
NYT: how a family of 3 lives on $500,000 on the upper west side
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