A Benjaminian re-reading of the urban image at the verge of the 21st century

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Mimarlık Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2013

Öğrenci: SEÇİL BİNBOĞA

Danışman: GÜVEN ARİF SARGIN

Özet:

The aim of this thesis is to put forward a critical perspective into the metropolis of the 21st Century through the critical materialist historiography of Walter Benjamin, and in the light of the idea of montage by Dziga Vertov. For this purpose, the methodological approach of these two authors, called “thinking in images”, and their basic montage concepts; “dialectical image” and “interval” will be assessed in order to develop a critical reading of the dialectic between the urban image and the urban reading. This dialectical relationship will be read via multiple temporalities-multiple bodies and moments of rupture-leap, while the 21st Century-metropolis is regarded as a movement/mobility or a “montage in motion”, which is under an ongoing transformation in-between the image of multiplicities and the image of resistance.