A vicinity of autoethnographical channels and ongoing self-emancipatory solitary praxises that stage an encounter with the world and with oneself.

THE COSMIST THOUGHT

SHE WOKE UP DEAD.

NEON PISS,

WATER STAINS

-FROM THE THIRTY-FIFTH FLOOR.

SUTO

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Su Türktekin Özdemir (2000) is a syzyologist-immortalist and cosmist-anarchist interested in the very things that transcend culture; death, subjective experiences, and the concept of immortality.

Using the lens of 'syzygy' to interpret concepts through the psychological counterpart of their physical realisation, she an

Through an early cultivated solitary praxis that shaped her relationship to death at a young age–informing both her existentialism and veganism, Su Türktekin Özdemir (2000) is interested in the very things that transcend culture: subjective experiences, death, and the concept of immortality.

Su Türktekin Özdemir (2000) is an anarchist-syzyologist,

Using the lens of 'syzygy' to interpret concepts through the psychological counterpart of their physical realisation, and an embodied anti-establishment stance on autonomy

using methods of autoethnography and pointedly cosmist themes of existentialism, alienation, and defamiliarization to discourse subjective experiences, philosophically engaged dialectical critique, and the relationship between resistance movements that hold an anti-death affinity.

She is a first generation Turkish-Canadian ‘syzyologist’ , using methods of autoethnography and pointedly cosmist themes of existentialism, alienation, and defamiliarization to discourse subjective experiences, philosophically engaged dialectical critique, and the relationship between resistance movements that hold an anti-death affinity.

Using the lens of 'syzygy' to interpret concepts through the psychological counterpart of their physical realisation, Su’s intrinsic connectivity to the ideas that disseminated from early 20th century Russian cosmism: a socio-cultural movement that holds a thematic identity linked to the achievement of immortality and overcoming inter-personal alienation through means of artistic ingenuity, technological advancement, and the reframing of productivity and progress through social reenegeering. She has been dictating intuitive, self-led academic research since her dissertation into the ideas of thinkers and practitioners who dared to reimagine cosmism’s inaugural text, and the various innovative outputs and concepts that ejected from such a seed–one forming a contagious noosphere that affected generations of post-Soviet identity. Su is particularly inspired by the thought traditions of biocosmist-anarchist writer-poets and the outcomes of futurist artists and the Russian avant-garde. Through the lens of cosmism and psychoanalytic concepts, she believes, "there is proof of tangibility in the immortal that cosmism presents. By way of thinking through an impossible like immortality, we can access reality through a fantasy frame, immortality–being the ideological counterpart of sustainability, and what eternal can really mean or manifest as in the context of a self-sustaining, life and expression-promoting social system–unearths the potential of estrangement from socio-political culture as it is, and a reenvisioning of productivity on social and personal levels towards life-affirming existence."

She puts forward that cosmism and veganism are two sides of the same consciousness and cosmically existential coin. She builds upon an ideologically enmeshed ‘inter-internism’, adapted from the biocosmist-anarchist concept of 'inter-individualism', with novelty that extends collective emancipation to include all human and non-human bodies who are exploited and oppressed, rooted in the responsibility of intersectional resistance, and in the value inherent to life and expressive autonomy.

Su’s filmmaking experience in the essay film medium, and her background in narrative construction as an experimental video editor, laid the foundations to explore the deconstructed elements of film, philosophy, analysis, and narrative modalities; the cracks through which her expression finds its current urgency and attention.

She is a first generation Turkish-Canadian, currently based in Toronto.

Contact

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su@turktekin.net