Philosophy of TechnologyAnkara

Metehan
Kandemir

Technology philosopher. I work on the moment a technology stops being a tool and becomes a horizon - the point at which it sets the terms for what can be felt, believed, and known.

The work

My central concern is the industrialization of the mind: attention, desire, and belief reorganized at the scale of infrastructure. I am less interested in whether this is good or bad than in describing it precisely - the metaphysics a system assumes before anyone argues for it.

The writing moves between two registers: the philosophical encounter with the technical object as something that arrives already speaking, and close study of the machinery through which conviction is now modeled and moved.

Published research
  1. A Permanent Condition of First Contact

    Technophany

    On encountering the technical object as one would an alien intelligence - not as instrument but as an other that arrives already speaking. A reading of the technophanic: the moment the machine appears as a manifestation rather than a means, where thought is forced to begin again from contact rather than from mastery.

  2. The Applicability of Big Data and Psychographic Advertising: A Case Study of Cambridge Analytica

    Data and persuasion

    How psychographic profiling treats the inner life as a measurable surface, and what it costs to model conviction as a variable to be moved. The case is taken not as scandal but as evidence - a working model of belief operating at industrial scale.

Lines of inquiry
Philosophy of technology
The machine as a condition of experience rather than a possession of it.
Post-secular studies
What belief, ritual, and the sacred become after disenchantment fails to finish the job.
Industrialization of the mind
Attention and desire reorganized as infrastructure, at the scale of populations.
Education

B.A. in Literature

Bilkent University

Graduated valedictorian