Journal Articles
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“Symbolic Megaprojects: Atatürk's Mausoleum in Turkey and the Construction of Hegemony” (co-authored with Günes Murat Tezcür), Middle East Critique, DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2025.2471181.
“The Silent Exception: Hunger Striking and Lip-Sewing,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 18, no. 2, 290-317. First published: May 24, 2017, DOI: 10.1177/1743872117709684
“Neo-Ottomanism: An Alt-Right Formation from the South?” Social Research: An International Quarterly (Special Issue: Turkey Today) 88, no. 2: 299-333.
“Disjecta Membra: Althusser’s Aesthetics Reconsidered” (co-authored with William Lewis), Filozofski Vestnik 50, no. 1: 7-59.
“Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations,” Rethinking Marxism, vol. 31, no. 3: 291-317.
“Year One: Reflections on Turkey’s Second Founding and the Politics of Division,” Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory 1, no. 1: 23-48.
“Bodies against War: Voluntary Human Shielding as a Practice of Resistance,” AJIL Unbound [American Journal of International Law Unbound Edition] 110 (January), 299-304.
“Why Did Bouazizi Burn Himself? The Politics of Fate and Fatal Politics,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 23, no. 1: 27-36.
“Another Necropolitics,” theory & event 19, no. 1 Supplement (January).
“Althusser’s Materialist Theater: Ideology and Its Aporias,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26, no. 3, 81-106.
“Odysseus Unbound: Sovereignty and Sacrifice in Hunger and the Dialectic of Enlightenment,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 19, no. 4, 7-22.
“The Predicaments of Left-Schmittianism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 113, no. 4, 713-27.
“Sovereignty as Erasure: Rethinking Enforced Disappearances,” Qui Parle 23, no. 1, 35-75.
“Human Shields,” Contemporary Political Theory 12, no. 4, 277-95.
“In the Theater of Politics: Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism and Aesthetics,” diacritics 40, no. 3, 86-111.
“Unleashing the Acheron: Sacrificial Partisanship, Sovereignty, and History,” theory & event 13, no. 1.
Essays
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“Authority,” in Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times, ed. Veena Das and Didier Fassin (Durham: Duke University Press), 61-82.
“Pluralizing the Crisis of Democracy” (in German translation as: „Die Krise der Demokratie pluralisieren,“ trans. Frank Lachmann and Henri Band) in Was stimmt nicht mit der Demokratie? Eine Debatte mit Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich und Hartmut Rosa, edited by Hanna Ketterer and Karina Becker (Berlin: Suhrkamp), 100-110.
“Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Notes Towards an Investigation” in Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence, and Resistance, ed. Banu Bargu (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 1-22.
“The Corporeal Avant-Garde: Petr Pavlensky” in Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement, ed. Gurur Ertem and Sandra Noeth (Vienna: Passagen Verlag), 101-21.
“Introduction” (co-authored with Chiara Bottici), in Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser, co-edited with Chiara Bottici (New York: Palgrave), 1-15.
“Machiavelli after Althusser,” in The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy, and Language, ed. Filippo Del Lucchese, Fabio Frosini, and Vittorio Morfino (Leiden and Boston: Brill), 420-39.
“Sovereignty,” in The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon,, ed. Leonard Lawlor and John Nale, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 456-65.
“Politics of Commensality,” in The Anarchist Turn, ed. Jacob Blumenfeld, Chiara Bottici, and Simon Critchley (London: Pluto Press), 35-58.
“Stasiology: Political Theology and the Figure of the Sacrificial Enemy,” in After Secular Law, ed. Winnifred Sullivan, Robert Yelle and Mateo Taussig-Rubbo (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 140-59.
“Max Stirner, Postanarchy avant la lettre,” in “How Not to Be Governed”: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left,, ed. Jimmy Casas Klausen and James Martel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press), 103-22.
“Spectacles of Death: Dignity, Dissent, and Sacrifice in Turkey’s Prisons,” in Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion, ed. Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler (London and New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press), 241-61.