Peer-reviewed Publications
“The Racial Politics of Smart Urbanism: Dubai and Beirut as Two Sides of the Same Coin,” In Special Issue: The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East, ed. by Burcu Ozcelik, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44:12, 2282–2303, 2021.
“Revisiting Cognitive Mapping: Extractive Capitalism and Media Arts in the Middle East,” In A Peer Reviewed Journal About Research Networks (APRJA), Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox, eds. Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020.
“Forensic Aesthetics for Militarized Drone Strikes: Affordances from Whom, and for What Ends?” In Special Issue: Rethinking Affordance, ed by. Ashley Scarlett & Martin Zeilinger, Media Theory, 3 (1), 239–268, 2019.
“In-between Soundscapes of Vancouver: Acoustic Experience of a City with a Sensory Repertoire of Another Place,” Organised Sound, 19 (2), 125–136, 2014.
Edited Volume
Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen (Eds.), Displacing Theory Through the Global South, ICI Berlin Press, 2024. Open Access
Book Chapters
“Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital,” in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 91–115, 2022.
“The Mediated Sounds of Palestinian Exile: Technics and Memory in Bernard Stiegler and Soundscape Studies,” In Sound, Media, Ecology, ed. by Milena Droumeva and Randolph Jordan, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 199–216, 2019.
“‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’: The Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics of Confronting the Past in Turkey,” in Animals, Plants, Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, ed. by Irmak Ertuna and Hande Gurses, New York: Routledge, 13–47, 2019.
Curated Online Exhibitions and Publishing
Nadia Christidi and Özgün Eylül İşcen, "Planetary Urbanisms," Against Catastrophe Reclaiming Futures Series, Summer 2025. Graphic and web design by Tal Halpern.
Nadia Christidi and Özgün Eylül İşcen, "Water Sovereignties," Against Catastrophe Reclaiming Futures Series, Summer 2025. Graphic and web design by Tal Halpern.
Özgün Eylül İşcen and Shintaro Miyazaki, Counter-N, 2021–Present.
Work in Progress
"Gulf Futurism and Its Discontents: A Quest for Multi-Cosmotechnics." In Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Computation, eds. Critical Computation Bureau (L. Parisi, E. Dixon-Román, T. Terranova, O. Pârvan, B. D’Aquino), Durham: Duke University Press, under review.
"The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Oil, Data, and 3D: Refiguring the Unknown in Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculations." Cultural Politics (Special Issue: Weird Geographies, eds. J. Turnbul et al.), under review.
Özgün Eylül İşcen and Aybike Alkan, "The Contested Digital Aesthetics of Neoliberal Developmentalism: The Coupling of Media Arts and Social Movements in Turkey." In Orit Halpern, Nadia Christidi, Sudipto Basu, & Özgün Eylül İşcen (Eds.), Against Catastrophe [Manuscript in preparation].
"AI as a Ghostly Matter: Where Political Accountability Lies." In Shifting Natures: Environment, Artificial Intelligence, Gender, F. Buongiorno, A. Bazzoni, & X. Chiaramonte (Eds.), ICI Berlin Press, [Manuscript in preparation].
Other Scholarly and Artistic Publishing
Özgün Eylül İşcen, Nadia Christidi, and Sudipto Basu. “Planetary Design – Reclaiming Futures: Against Catastrophe.” Interview by Federica Zambeletti. KoozArch, May 3, 2025. Transcripted podcast available online.
Özgün Eylül İşcen and Shintaro Miyazaki, “Counter-Futuring the Internet: A Conversation,” In TECH | IMAGINATIONS, ed. by Christian Schulz, Jens Schröter, Christoph Ernst, Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien und Kulturwissenschaften, 2023, 2.
“Golf-Futurismus: Wie Post-Carbon-Imaginationen die Systemkrise reproduzieren” (Gulf Futurism: How Post-Carbon Imaginaries Are Reproducing the Systemic Crisis), Berliner Gazette (After Extractivism Series), 17 May 2022.
“Cognitive Assemblages,” In Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, edited by Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhardt. Athens: Onassis Foundation, 2022.
Özgün Eylül İşcen, Geoffrey Aung & Sudipto Basu, “Refusal to be Refused: On the Modes of Resistance to Logistical Capital in the Global South” In Research Networks A Peer-Reviewed Newspaper, Volume 9, Issue 1, ed. by Christian Ulrik Anderson and Geoff Cox, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2021.
Arab Culture in the Digital Age: Futurity Without Guarantee. In Beyond the Echo Chamber March Meeting 2019, ed. by Reem Shadid, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019.
“In the Defense of Materiality in the Digital Age as Its Infrastructure and Symptom,” In The Catalogue for the exhibition ‘The Channelers’, ed. by Lauren Marsden and Maria Fedorova, EMMEDIA, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2017.
“The Impossibility of Parody?” In The Essay Catalogue for the exhibition Full Exposure: Paul and Damon McCarthy, ed. by Kristine Stiles and Erin Hanas, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, 2015.
Özgün Eylül İşcen, Diane Gromala and Maryam Mobini, “Body Image and Body Schema: Interaction Design for and through Embodied Cognition,” In Human-Computer Interaction. Advanced Interaction Modalities and Techniques. HCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8511, edited by Masaaki Kurosu, 2014, Springer, Cham., 556–566.
Amber Choo, Özgün Eylül İşcen, and Mehdi Karamnejad, “Serious Indie Games for Social Awareness: Gamifying Human Characters with Disabilities,” Gamification ’13: Proceedings of the First International Conf. on Gameful Design, Research, and Applications, 83–86, 2013.
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