#sociology

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Batman alone on the rubble of a collapsed building in blue night light, with small fires burning in the foreground.

The Dark Knight: The Sociology of Gotham and the Philosophy of Chaos

Reading The Dark Knight as an essay in social theory: Hobbes's collapsing Leviathan, Durkheim's anomie, the prisoner's dilemma on the ferries, the panopticon in the sonar machine and Plato's noble lie.

14 November 2026 · 10 min · TR / EN

A neat, hard-edged lattice at the top whose lines loosen as the eye moves downward and turn into wavy bands; an abstract, text-free composition suggesting the passage from solid to fluid.

Sociology

Bauman and liquid modernity: when all that is solid evaporates

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.

13 November 2026 · 6 min · TR / EN