Systems medicine & political theory│MD, MSc, PhD, MA
‘The university is a critical institution or it is nothing’ (Stuart Hall)
Master of arts│I read, think and write through a postcolonial queer-feminist lens
Culture & Theory│Materiality & Theory│Queer ways of seeing
Sürüden ayrılanların hikayeleri🦉🎈kuir görme biçimleri
#BlackLivesMatter ✊🏾 🌈🏳️⚧️ Vegan 🚲 he/they
Artun is my chosen name
Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario
| Bio | https://www.linkedin.com/in/vuralozdemir/ |
| Biopolitics in Science and Medicine | https://mehmetvuralozdemir.academia.edu/ |
| Critical Innovation Studies (CIS) | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00011 |
The Art of Critique | Op-ed 10 Sept 2025
As we draw closer to the end of 2025, we are marking the end of the first quarter of the 21st century.
For equitable science & healthcare, we need a departure from narrow technocratic models & mindsets to account for political determinants, the causes-of-causes, of planetary health—the elephants in the room that we need to face for an incisive, just, and robust #art of #critique in the second quarter of the 21st century.
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
― Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
Speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2003
#SusanSontag #writers #essayists #journalists
#indie #authors #culturaltheory #critics #reflexivity #politics
When poetry, rock, and photography meet
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, New York, 1971
Photo: Gerard Malanga
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=656522701216741&id=262230943979254&set=a.412674538934893
📌 Remembering Sedat Pakay
#SedatPakay, #photographer and #filmmaker, died on #August 20, 2016 in Hudson, New York.
Studied with photographer Walker Evans at the Yale School of #Art, and freelanced in #NewYorkCity
Pakay is known for portraits of artists in diverse fields including #JamesBaldwin #AndyWarhol and #MarkRothko.
Sedat Pakay filming From Another Place (1970)
https://www.sedatpakay.com/
📌 “James Baldwin: From Another Place”
https://mastodon.world/@azadv/115073548595377065
Planetary health is a significant and relatively new field of #scholarship that takes the political determinants of #health seriously.
#Planetaryhealth emphasizes that human health and the health of the #ecosystems are intertwined and interdependent.
There is no human health without ecosystem health and no ecosystem health without #democracy.
artun
