The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were created for an entirely different purpose. They document the renunciation of Ottoman nationality, "terk-i tabiiyet," by Armenian emigrants bound for the US and elsewhere. As our guest Zeynep Devrim Gürsel explains, the photographs were "anticipatory arrest warrants for a crime yet to be committed"--the crime of returning to the Ottoman Empire. Gürsel's research goes far beyond the story of the small number of photographs that remain as she has documented over four thousand individuals who went through the process of "terk-i tabiiyet."  In this Ottoman History Podcast-AnthroPod collaboration, we talk to Gürsel about her research project on the production, circulation and afterlives of these photographs titled "Portraits of Unbelonging." It is a double-sided history that explores not only the context of Armenian migration and policing during the late Ottoman period but also the experiences of those pictured and their descendants following their departure from the Ottoman Empire. (Recorded August 2019)

In memory of Mary Lou Savage (née Khantamour)

Contributors: Beth Derderian (AnthroPod), Zeynep Devrim Gürsel (Rutgers University), and Chris Gratien (Ottoman History Podcast).

60. Portraits of Unbelonging: Special Crossover with Ottoman History Podcast

Professor Kamari Clarke reflects on her ethnographic work in Africa, her thinking on the legacies of colonialism in the discipline of Anthropology, and her recent work with the Radical Humanism Initiative.

For the transcription and show-notes of this episode, please visit: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/radical-humanism-and-decolonization-an-interview-with-kamari-maxine-clarke

61. Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet.

Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter.

This week’s letter is R; FYTA talk about: reformism vs revolution,  religion, recycling, real, relativism, referendum, role-playing, regret - remorse - repentance

Music by: Research Library, red asphalt, riefenstahl, renaldo and the loaf, reverse, rip rig and panic, royal family and the poor, r. stevie moore, roter rot, Residents, Ralph Carney, Rex Ilussivi,

Philosophy by Wilhem Reich
Poetry by Adrienne Rich

Photo by: Mihalis Gkatzogias

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.18 (letter of the week: R)

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet.

Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter.

This week’s letter is S; FYTA talk about: straightness, safe spaces, sandals, satanists, swallowing, being snobbish, structuralism, souvlaki, superficiality, shit 

Music by: Schaltkreis Wassermann, Siluetes 61, Sleepng Dogs, Social Climbers, Srp, Stereo Total, Stew Lane and the untouchables, Stick Men, Suburban Lawns, Strangers, Surplus Stock, Stabat Stable, Silvia, Stratis

Philosophy by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Poetry by Gertrude Stein

Photo by: Mihalis Gkatzogias

Special shout-out to: Moore, Alison (2005). Kakao and kaka: Chocolate and the excretory imagination of nineteenth-century Europe. Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World. Edited by Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan.51-69.

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.19 (letter of the week: S)

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet.

Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter.

This week’s letter is T; FYTA talk about: trash, trolling, terrorism, telephone, totalitarianism, triangles, techno, television, tops, toilet, tourism, tradition, twitter

Music by: Die Toedliche Doris, Tanzdiele, Teddy and the frat girls, Taco, Thick Pigeon, Toyah, Tesco Bombers, Tom and Marty Band, Thorax-Wach, Tyondai Braxton

Philosophy by Leon Trotsky
Poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva

Photo by: Mihalis Gkatzogias

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.20 (letter of the week: T)

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet. Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter.

This week’s letter is U; FYTA talk about: the unconscious, uniforms, the underground, unusual -usual things, underwear, urinals, utopia, Uber, UFOs

Music by: Ultravox, Unovidual, UJ3RK, Unknownmix, Univers Zero, The Undertones, Units, Ursula Bogner, Ulrich Lask (feat Maggie Nelson), U.S. Nurds (Hybrid Kids), Die Umbekannten, Ute Lemper

Philosophy by Miguel de Unamuno 
Poetry by Underworld

Photo by: Mihalis Gkatzogias

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.21 (letter of the week: U)

Use of Red

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet. 
Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter.

This week’s letter is J. FYTA talk about Jouissance, Jazz, jerking off, jokes, juggling, juxtaposition

They play music by The Jellies, Ja Ja Ja, Jazz-O-Mat, Jung Analysts, Jacno, Catherine Jauniaux, Grace Jones, Jean Michel Jarre

Poet of the week: James Joyce
Philosopher of the week: Carl Jung

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.10 (letter of the week: J)

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet.

Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter.

This week’s letter is M. FYTA talk about: Nature, Nail Art, Nominalism, Nostalgia, Negation

Music by: Nini Raviolette, Non Band, Neal von Non & The Guinea Pigs, Negativland, N.O.R.M.A., Neros Tanzende Elektropäpste, The Normal, Naif Orchestra

Philosopher of the week: Friederich Nietszche
Poet of the week: Anais Nin

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.14 (letter of the week: N)

SUN for electronics and the countertenor voice of Feargal Mostyn-Williams.  An exercise in merging composition and arrangement with generative processes.     Originally commissioned by public artist Alex Rinsler and Prof. Robert Walsh, one of the UK’s leading solar physicists.  The installation presents astrophysical data from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory in stunning 360°, SUN displays our closest star as a continually evolving sphere observed in extreme ultraviolet light, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond human sight.

FYTA present a series of 26 thematic shows, one for every letter of the english alphabet. 
Each show introduces concepts, philosophers, poets and music projects whose name starts from each specific letter. In alphabetical order, FYTA re-examine and re-define the world of proper names. The ABC of FYTA heralds the coming of a new language; it is essentially a dictionary of pulses and pauses, a study in nominalism, a post-punk pilgrim, an educational radio program for the masses who struggle to understand the new reality of our times. From Theodor Adorno to Alekna Zupancic and from Aunt Sally to die Zwei the ABC of FYTA will categorise an impossibly chaotic world of influences and contradictions.

The ABC of FYTA, Ep.19 (letter of the week: S)

the ABC of FYTA

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