Beliz Yuksel
@belizyuksel.bsky.social
Anthropologist
Writer of Experiences Unwrapped
Experience • Immersive Media • Sensory Culture
MA, Hunter College (CUNY)
belizyuksel.me
https://linktr.ee/belizyuksel
Writer of Experiences Unwrapped
Experience • Immersive Media • Sensory Culture
MA, Hunter College (CUNY)
belizyuksel.me
https://linktr.ee/belizyuksel
Reposted by Beliz Yuksel
Widespread police raids, online censorship target Turkey’s LGBTI+ community in new crackdown bianet.org/haber/widesp...
Widespread police raids, online censorship target Turkey’s LGBTI+ community in new crackdown
bianet.org
September 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Widespread police raids, online censorship target Turkey’s LGBTI+ community in new crackdown bianet.org/haber/widesp...
Why have we become a #culture obsessed with empty corporate thresholds?
My new piece tries to answer that through the #liminal aesthetics, the haunted Atlantic City hotel, and #Backrooms👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
My new piece tries to answer that through the #liminal aesthetics, the haunted Atlantic City hotel, and #Backrooms👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
June 4, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Why have we become a #culture obsessed with empty corporate thresholds?
My new piece tries to answer that through the #liminal aesthetics, the haunted Atlantic City hotel, and #Backrooms👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
My new piece tries to answer that through the #liminal aesthetics, the haunted Atlantic City hotel, and #Backrooms👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
The threshold became the room we live in.
New piece on liminality: why modern life feels like permanent waiting, and how I accidentally solved it with piano practice:
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
New piece on liminality: why modern life feels like permanent waiting, and how I accidentally solved it with piano practice:
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
The Threshold Practice: Spring's Suspension
Why We're Always In-Between (And What to Do About It)
open.substack.com
May 23, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The threshold became the room we live in.
New piece on liminality: why modern life feels like permanent waiting, and how I accidentally solved it with piano practice:
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
New piece on liminality: why modern life feels like permanent waiting, and how I accidentally solved it with piano practice:
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
Posthumous experience is now a product. Photos move. Voices respond. Presence simulated.
But is it still them?
Read: Becoming With Machines
belizyuksel.substack.com/p/becoming-w...
But is it still them?
Read: Becoming With Machines
belizyuksel.substack.com/p/becoming-w...
Becoming With Machines
On what we lose when immortality becomes a product
belizyuksel.substack.com
April 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Posthumous experience is now a product. Photos move. Voices respond. Presence simulated.
But is it still them?
Read: Becoming With Machines
belizyuksel.substack.com/p/becoming-w...
But is it still them?
Read: Becoming With Machines
belizyuksel.substack.com/p/becoming-w...
Death has become a #design problem. We're the first generation asked to "manage" our own #digitaldeath. The fantasy of the #experience economy isn't immortality, but control.
New on #Substack: Curating the Death ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#Posthumanism #DigitalAnthropology #UX
New on #Substack: Curating the Death ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#Posthumanism #DigitalAnthropology #UX
Curating the Death
On Designed Persistence, Platform Sovereignty, and the Managed Self
open.substack.com
April 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Death has become a #design problem. We're the first generation asked to "manage" our own #digitaldeath. The fantasy of the #experience economy isn't immortality, but control.
New on #Substack: Curating the Death ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#Posthumanism #DigitalAnthropology #UX
New on #Substack: Curating the Death ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#Posthumanism #DigitalAnthropology #UX
From the "spring green" of the page to the high-contrast pixels of the screen. An analysis of color #biopolitics in #Gilead & how platform #aesthetics are fixing our imagination.
Read here: Returning to Gilead↓
belizyuksel.medium.com/returning-to...
#HandmaidsTale #TheTestaments #DigitalCulture
Read here: Returning to Gilead↓
belizyuksel.medium.com/returning-to...
#HandmaidsTale #TheTestaments #DigitalCulture
Returning to Gilead: The Testaments and the New Shade of Green
Platform Aesthetics and the Ownership of Imagination
belizyuksel.medium.com
April 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM
From the "spring green" of the page to the high-contrast pixels of the screen. An analysis of color #biopolitics in #Gilead & how platform #aesthetics are fixing our imagination.
Read here: Returning to Gilead↓
belizyuksel.medium.com/returning-to...
#HandmaidsTale #TheTestaments #DigitalCulture
Read here: Returning to Gilead↓
belizyuksel.medium.com/returning-to...
#HandmaidsTale #TheTestaments #DigitalCulture
Hikayeler bizim hayalimiz mi, yoksa platformların ürünü mü?
The Testaments’ın pikselleri ve mülkiyetin yeni renkleri üzerine bir analiz: Piksellerin İşgali ↓
Okumak için: belizyuksel.substack.com/p/pikselleri...
#MargaretAtwood #disneyplustr #handmaidstale #thetestaments #gilead
The Testaments’ın pikselleri ve mülkiyetin yeni renkleri üzerine bir analiz: Piksellerin İşgali ↓
Okumak için: belizyuksel.substack.com/p/pikselleri...
#MargaretAtwood #disneyplustr #handmaidstale #thetestaments #gilead
Piksellerin İşgali: Platform Estetiği ve Hayal Gücünün Mülkiyeti
Gilead’a Dönüş: Ahitler, Yeşilin Yeni Tonu ve Bakışın İpoteği
belizyuksel.substack.com
April 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Hikayeler bizim hayalimiz mi, yoksa platformların ürünü mü?
The Testaments’ın pikselleri ve mülkiyetin yeni renkleri üzerine bir analiz: Piksellerin İşgali ↓
Okumak için: belizyuksel.substack.com/p/pikselleri...
#MargaretAtwood #disneyplustr #handmaidstale #thetestaments #gilead
The Testaments’ın pikselleri ve mülkiyetin yeni renkleri üzerine bir analiz: Piksellerin İşgali ↓
Okumak için: belizyuksel.substack.com/p/pikselleri...
#MargaretAtwood #disneyplustr #handmaidstale #thetestaments #gilead
A #selfie isn’t just a reflection.
It’s a fragment of you that can keep circulating without you. We’re all building versions of ourselves that outlast the body.
If those traces remain, who are they for, and what do they become over time?
Read here: The Persistence of the Digital Limb↓
tr.ee/8Ay7Mi
It’s a fragment of you that can keep circulating without you. We’re all building versions of ourselves that outlast the body.
If those traces remain, who are they for, and what do they become over time?
Read here: The Persistence of the Digital Limb↓
tr.ee/8Ay7Mi
The Persistence of the Digital Limb
On Fragmentation, Presence, and Digital Continuity
open.substack.com
April 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
A #selfie isn’t just a reflection.
It’s a fragment of you that can keep circulating without you. We’re all building versions of ourselves that outlast the body.
If those traces remain, who are they for, and what do they become over time?
Read here: The Persistence of the Digital Limb↓
tr.ee/8Ay7Mi
It’s a fragment of you that can keep circulating without you. We’re all building versions of ourselves that outlast the body.
If those traces remain, who are they for, and what do they become over time?
Read here: The Persistence of the Digital Limb↓
tr.ee/8Ay7Mi
We’re no longer just comparing ourselves to other people; we’re comparing ourselves to #machine.
What does that do to us?
Drowning in the Machine Mirror ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#posthumanism #transhumanism #labor #experience
What does that do to us?
Drowning in the Machine Mirror ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#posthumanism #transhumanism #labor #experience
Drowning in the Machine Mirror
The Great Comparison era, where human limits are exposed by AI
open.substack.com
March 31, 2026 at 9:53 PM
We’re no longer just comparing ourselves to other people; we’re comparing ourselves to #machine.
What does that do to us?
Drowning in the Machine Mirror ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#posthumanism #transhumanism #labor #experience
What does that do to us?
Drowning in the Machine Mirror ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#posthumanism #transhumanism #labor #experience
What if an #oathceremony could feel like a ritual, a story, and a welcome all at once?
That’s exactly what happened at my #naturalization.
Under Oath: The Aesthetics of the Civic Ritual ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#sensory #experience #architecture #spatialdesign #brooklyn #newyorkcity
That’s exactly what happened at my #naturalization.
Under Oath: The Aesthetics of the Civic Ritual ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#sensory #experience #architecture #spatialdesign #brooklyn #newyorkcity
Under Oath: The Aesthetics of the Civic Ritual
Sensory Anchors of the Naturalization Process
open.substack.com
March 30, 2026 at 10:14 PM
What if an #oathceremony could feel like a ritual, a story, and a welcome all at once?
That’s exactly what happened at my #naturalization.
Under Oath: The Aesthetics of the Civic Ritual ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#sensory #experience #architecture #spatialdesign #brooklyn #newyorkcity
That’s exactly what happened at my #naturalization.
Under Oath: The Aesthetics of the Civic Ritual ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#sensory #experience #architecture #spatialdesign #brooklyn #newyorkcity
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we’re always trying to be better, faster, more optimized, and how tiring that actually feels. This piece sits with that quiet exhaustion.
Superhuman, Super Tired ↓
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#substack #blog #posthumanism #transhumanism
Superhuman, Super Tired ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#substack #blog #posthumanism #transhumanism
Superhuman, Super Tired
What transhumanism does not allow
open.substack.com
March 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we’re always trying to be better, faster, more optimized, and how tiring that actually feels. This piece sits with that quiet exhaustion.
Superhuman, Super Tired ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#substack #blog #posthumanism #transhumanism
Superhuman, Super Tired ↓
open.substack.com/pub/belizyuk...
#substack #blog #posthumanism #transhumanism
A quick catch-up: Moving from Medium to a new rhythm on #Substack. In the weekly section, Layers, I'll deep dive into our experience-think sensory #experience meets cultural theory. One layer at a time.
Subscribe here: belizyuksel.substack.com
#blog #anthropology #culture #opinion
Subscribe here: belizyuksel.substack.com
#blog #anthropology #culture #opinion
Experiences Unwrapped | Beliz Yuksel | Substack
Dive into the fascinating world of everyday life with a fresh perspective! In this newsletter, I will explore the art of the ordinary with insights on aesthetics, art, and everyday anthropology. Curio...
belizyuksel.substack.com
March 30, 2026 at 7:03 PM
A quick catch-up: Moving from Medium to a new rhythm on #Substack. In the weekly section, Layers, I'll deep dive into our experience-think sensory #experience meets cultural theory. One layer at a time.
Subscribe here: belizyuksel.substack.com
#blog #anthropology #culture #opinion
Subscribe here: belizyuksel.substack.com
#blog #anthropology #culture #opinion
Stray dogs in Turkey are being silenced —violently.
When compassion is framed as chaos, and dogs become threats to "order," something deeper is at work.
I explored the political logic behind it in my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/stray-animal...
#medium #animalrights #massacrelaw #turkey
When compassion is framed as chaos, and dogs become threats to "order," something deeper is at work.
I explored the political logic behind it in my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/stray-animal...
#medium #animalrights #massacrelaw #turkey
Stray Animals and the Acoustic Texture of Istanbul Streets
When they come for the dogs, it’s never just about the dogs
belizyuksel.medium.com
May 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Stray dogs in Turkey are being silenced —violently.
When compassion is framed as chaos, and dogs become threats to "order," something deeper is at work.
I explored the political logic behind it in my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/stray-animal...
#medium #animalrights #massacrelaw #turkey
When compassion is framed as chaos, and dogs become threats to "order," something deeper is at work.
I explored the political logic behind it in my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/stray-animal...
#medium #animalrights #massacrelaw #turkey
Apparently, controlling women's bodies is still trending. Wrote an essay about it, featuring #TheHandmaidsTale and reality.
Reproductive Dystopias: Parallel Lives, Divided Voices, and The Handmaid’s Tale
belizyuksel.medium.com/reproductive...
#feminist #dystopia #analysis #patriarchy
Reproductive Dystopias: Parallel Lives, Divided Voices, and The Handmaid’s Tale
belizyuksel.medium.com/reproductive...
#feminist #dystopia #analysis #patriarchy
Reproductive Dystopias
Parallel Lives, Divided Voices, and The Handmaid’s Tale
belizyuksel.medium.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Apparently, controlling women's bodies is still trending. Wrote an essay about it, featuring #TheHandmaidsTale and reality.
Reproductive Dystopias: Parallel Lives, Divided Voices, and The Handmaid’s Tale
belizyuksel.medium.com/reproductive...
#feminist #dystopia #analysis #patriarchy
Reproductive Dystopias: Parallel Lives, Divided Voices, and The Handmaid’s Tale
belizyuksel.medium.com/reproductive...
#feminist #dystopia #analysis #patriarchy
‘It reminds me of the now-famous saying jointly attributed to Fredric Jameson and Mark Fisher, “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.’
A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings hyperallergic.com/1002515/aaro... @hyperallergic.com
A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings hyperallergic.com/1002515/aaro... @hyperallergic.com
A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings
Aaron Gilbert’s sense of time draws us away from the now to a potential future that we are having trouble envisioning.
hyperallergic.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
‘It reminds me of the now-famous saying jointly attributed to Fredric Jameson and Mark Fisher, “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.’
A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings hyperallergic.com/1002515/aaro... @hyperallergic.com
A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings hyperallergic.com/1002515/aaro... @hyperallergic.com
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Kaymakları bozukmuş arkadaşlar. Gitmeyin. Para kazandırmayın. #boykot
Pelit Pastanesi şubelerinin çok büyük kısmı iktidarın “kaymak tabaka, elitler” vs. gibi sözlerle ötekileştirdiği semtlerde bulunuyor. Yani muhaliflerden para kazanıp kaymağı kendileri yiyor
April 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Kaymakları bozukmuş arkadaşlar. Gitmeyin. Para kazandırmayın. #boykot
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"Sevgili @theguardian.com, durumu şöyle düzeltelim:
Demokrasinin değil, otokrasinin sonu. Direnişi bir clickbait'e alet ettikten sonra direnişten değil, demokrasinin çöküşünden* bahsetmek sizi tatmin ediyorsa hatırlatayım: Bu bir film değil gerçek"
ig AtilaGündüz
www.instagram.com/p/DIIv-H4ouf...
Demokrasinin değil, otokrasinin sonu. Direnişi bir clickbait'e alet ettikten sonra direnişten değil, demokrasinin çöküşünden* bahsetmek sizi tatmin ediyorsa hatırlatayım: Bu bir film değil gerçek"
ig AtilaGündüz
www.instagram.com/p/DIIv-H4ouf...
April 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Sevgili @theguardian.com, durumu şöyle düzeltelim:
Demokrasinin değil, otokrasinin sonu. Direnişi bir clickbait'e alet ettikten sonra direnişten değil, demokrasinin çöküşünden* bahsetmek sizi tatmin ediyorsa hatırlatayım: Bu bir film değil gerçek"
ig AtilaGündüz
www.instagram.com/p/DIIv-H4ouf...
Demokrasinin değil, otokrasinin sonu. Direnişi bir clickbait'e alet ettikten sonra direnişten değil, demokrasinin çöküşünden* bahsetmek sizi tatmin ediyorsa hatırlatayım: Bu bir film değil gerçek"
ig AtilaGündüz
www.instagram.com/p/DIIv-H4ouf...
When even #Pikachu becomes an enemy of the state, you know something is deeply wrong. The Turkish Pikachu reveals more than viral absurdity—it exposes a violent system at work.
Read my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/the-electric...
#TurkeyWatch #TurkeyProtests #Carnivalesque
#blogpost
Read my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/the-electric...
#TurkeyWatch #TurkeyProtests #Carnivalesque
#blogpost
The Electric Charge of Protest: Resisting Pikachu
Carnivalesque Resistance
belizyuksel.medium.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
When even #Pikachu becomes an enemy of the state, you know something is deeply wrong. The Turkish Pikachu reveals more than viral absurdity—it exposes a violent system at work.
Read my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/the-electric...
#TurkeyWatch #TurkeyProtests #Carnivalesque
#blogpost
Read my latest piece:
belizyuksel.medium.com/the-electric...
#TurkeyWatch #TurkeyProtests #Carnivalesque
#blogpost
A single photograph of a dervish hit by #police pepper spray captures #Istanbul ’s rising tensions. Whose body is it? Power marks it with pain; resistance moves through it. The body itself is a battleground.
Read more:
belizyuksel.medium.com/the-body-as-...
#Turkey #Protest #politics #media
Read more:
belizyuksel.medium.com/the-body-as-...
#Turkey #Protest #politics #media
The Body as a Battleground
The Whirling Dervish in Istanbul, 2025
belizyuksel.medium.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"The survival of #democracy in #Turkey is crucial not just for its people but also for the future of democracy worldwide. The age of the unchecked strongmen demands that those who believe in democracy be just as vocal, forceful and unrelenting as their opponents.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"The survival of #democracy in #Turkey is crucial not just for its people but also for the future of democracy worldwide. The age of the unchecked strongmen demands that those who believe in democracy be just as vocal, forceful and unrelenting as their opponents.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
I feel angry, sad, and as though my hands are tied. In #Turkey, students are fighting for their future, saying "STOP" to injustice and the usurpation of their rights.
Sharing this #blog post, thinking and hoping I can create more awareness on the situation.
belizyuksel.medium.com/fear-and-fur...
Sharing this #blog post, thinking and hoping I can create more awareness on the situation.
belizyuksel.medium.com/fear-and-fur...
Fear and Fury: The Arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu
Some Resist, and Others Remain Silent
belizyuksel.medium.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I feel angry, sad, and as though my hands are tied. In #Turkey, students are fighting for their future, saying "STOP" to injustice and the usurpation of their rights.
Sharing this #blog post, thinking and hoping I can create more awareness on the situation.
belizyuksel.medium.com/fear-and-fur...
Sharing this #blog post, thinking and hoping I can create more awareness on the situation.
belizyuksel.medium.com/fear-and-fur...
Oppression doesn't just exist—it's curated. From neoclassical architecture to Al-generated utopias, power has always known how to disguise itself. My latest piece on the aestheticization of evil:
belizyuksel.medium.com/making-evil-...
#AI #medium #blogpost
belizyuksel.medium.com/making-evil-...
#AI #medium #blogpost
Making Evil Look Good
The Art of Disguising Injustice — Now Powered by AI
belizyuksel.medium.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Oppression doesn't just exist—it's curated. From neoclassical architecture to Al-generated utopias, power has always known how to disguise itself. My latest piece on the aestheticization of evil:
belizyuksel.medium.com/making-evil-...
#AI #medium #blogpost
belizyuksel.medium.com/making-evil-...
#AI #medium #blogpost
Hello #Bluesky! I just took a leap out of my comfort zone— let’s see what’s going on here!
#firstpost
#firstpost
February 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hello #Bluesky! I just took a leap out of my comfort zone— let’s see what’s going on here!
#firstpost
#firstpost