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Elif\u2019s article \u201cMarriage or Death: Salvation within Patriarchy An Analysis of Female Autonomy in A\u015fk\u0131 Memnu,<\/em>\u201d was published in Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration<\/em>, Vol. 11 No. 1 (Summer 2026). This essay examines the complex relationship between characters Bihter Ziyagil and her mother Firdevs Y\u00f6reo\u011flu in the Turkish drama series A\u015fk\u0131 Memnu<\/em>\u00a0(2008\u20132010), an adaptation of Halit Ziya U\u015fakl\u0131gil\u2019s 1899 novel. Bihter\u2019s desire to separate from her mother\u2019s scandalous reputation puts her in a position where she struggles to keep up with the demands of society as well as her own needs and desires as a woman. Unable to find happiness in her marriage or in a secret affair with her husband\u2019s nephew, Bihter embraces her similarity to Firdevs, which ultimately leads to her self-destruction. Her final act of suicide is not merely a punishment for her immoral actions but her salvation from the judgment of patriarchal society.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Technophany-Journal-Cover-1.jpg\")
Metehan\u2019s piece is a book review, co-authored with William Morgan, titled \u201cA Permanent Condition of First Contact: Bogna Konior\u2019s The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet<\/em>,\u201d published in the 2026 issue of Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology<\/em>. The review argues that Bogna Konior\u2019s The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet <\/em>(Polity, 2025) departs from the \u201csocially engaged journalism\u201d that dominates internet scholarship to recover an older link between computation and ufology, recasting the internet as a site of first contact. Drawing on Liu Cixin\u2019s game-theoretic answer to the Fermi Paradox, Konior underscores AI systems\u2019 continuous ingestion of online communication as training data, arguing that it collapses the distinction between speaking about and speaking to algorithms. Intelligence, in her account, inheres in strategic concealment, yielding an \u201cinverse Turing Test\u201d in which genuine cognition would remain undetectable. The review suggests that Konior\u2019s text may itself function as an adversarial payload, encoding structural indeterminacy into the datasets it ostensibly theorizes. For audiences who have grown weary of emancipatory manifestos and the defeatist critiques that shadow them, our authors argue, Konior provides a realism sturdy enough to inhabit the forest without surrendering to it.<\/p>\n