Writing by Kemal Baştak on technology, film and TV analysis, sociology and personal notes.https://kemalbastak.com/en-GBhttps://kemalbastak.com/en/film/stalker/https://kemalbastak.com/en/film/stalker/Tarkovsky's Stalker opens like science fiction and ends as a study of belief. A reading of the Zone, the silence and the Room that is never entered.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMTFilm analysishttps://kemalbastak.com/en/film/paterson/https://kemalbastak.com/en/film/paterson/Jarmusch's Paterson treats repetition not as a flaw but as the rhythm of a poem. A reading of one bus driver-poet's week and the aesthetics of ordinary life.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:00:00 GMTFilm analysishttps://kemalbastak.com/en/series/severance/https://kemalbastak.com/en/series/severance/Severance is a thought experiment in which a brain procedure splits work from private life. A reading of its first season through identity, consent and work culture.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTSeries analysishttps://kemalbastak.com/en/series/the-wire/https://kemalbastak.com/en/series/the-wire/Each season of The Wire examines one Baltimore institution: the drug trade, the port, city hall, the schools and the press. A reading of the show's argument about institutional failure.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMTSeries analysishttps://kemalbastak.com/en/series/succession/https://kemalbastak.com/en/series/succession/Succession follows the heirs of a media empire and shows how love, loyalty and money become tangled. A reading of the show's tragic structure, its camera and its score.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 13:00:00 GMTSeries analysishttps://kemalbastak.com/en/series/dark/https://kemalbastak.com/en/series/dark/Dark starts in a small town called Winden and uses a closed time loop to test free will against fate. A reading of the series' structure, its themes and its finale.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTSeries analysishttps://kemalbastak.com/en/sociology/bauman/https://kemalbastak.com/en/sociology/bauman/Zygmunt Bauman's idea of liquid modernity describes the passage from a heavy, solid world to a light and changeable one. A reading of the metaphor through work, relationships and identity, and of its limits.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMTSociologyhttps://kemalbastak.com/en/sociology/byung-chul-han/https://kemalbastak.com/en/sociology/byung-chul-han/Byung-Chul Han describes the move from a disciplinary society to an achievement society, in which the individual becomes their own boss. A reading of The Burnout Society, its present-day echoes and its limits.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:00:00 GMTSociologyhttps://kemalbastak.com/en/technology/astro-git-claude/https://kemalbastak.com/en/technology/astro-git-claude/How this site is built: static pages generated by Astro, Markdown files kept in git, the Sveltia CMS panel, Pagefind search, Cloudflare hosting, and a writing flow in which Claude prepares the drafts.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMTTechnologyhttps://kemalbastak.com/en/technology/statik-site-django/https://kemalbastak.com/en/technology/statik-site-django/Three ways to run a personal blog: a static site with Astro, Django on a cheap server, or a hybrid that pairs the Django admin with a static build. Prices are dated and taken from official pages.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTTechnologyhttps://kemalbastak.com/en/technology/yerel-llm-saas/https://kemalbastak.com/en/technology/yerel-llm-saas/A framework for deciding whether a small SaaS should run a local language model, weighing cost, latency and privacy, with concrete defaults from the Ollama and llama.cpp documentation and no invented prices.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMTTechnologyhttps://kemalbastak.com/en/blog/site-neden-boyle/https://kemalbastak.com/en/blog/site-neden-boyle/Three choices behind this site: a simple structure with no maintenance burden, two-language content from the start, and a space that does not depend on someone else's platform. The choices and their costs.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 06:00:00 GMTBlog