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reader, researcher and sometimes writer @ https://becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com reviewer invited @ https://ijlls.org "Le bonheur est radical" H. Arendt
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jul 4
"You know the bourgeoisie call intelligent
One who masters deceits and guile!
You know the bourgeoisie call intelligent
One who is diligent!
Because the crucial linchpin relies on
'Reach the goal through the most expedient path'!"

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Intelligent!
Francisco de Goya, Bravo!, 1799. You know the bourgeoisie call intelligent One who masters deceits and guile! You know the bourgeoisie call intelligent One who is diligent! Because the crucial linc…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jul 2
“[…] intensely egotistical yet inspired by the most genuine passion for the rights and liberties of mankind.” Virginia Woolf

#Rabelais #WilliamHazlitt #allegory #SociologyofLiterature

Hence, literature collides with allegory: “William Hazlitt” becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/h...
Hence, literature collides with allegory: “William Hazlitt”
“His essays are emphatically himself. He has no reticence and he has no shame. He tells us exactly what he thinks, and he tells us -the confidence is less seductive- exactly what he feels. As of al…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 30
"Poised between the shore and the sea,
Waves, in whispering hues, beckon me toward
The home untouched by sorrow’s knotted threads
Withdrawing surf shapes a huge wave..."

📷The Waves, 2015.

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The Waves…
Özden Turhan, The Waves, 2015. Poised between the shore and the sea, Waves, in whispering hues, beckon me toward The home untouched by sorrow’s knotted threads Withdrawing surf shapes a huge wave T…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 27
“The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.” Woolf

🎵"Spiegel im Spiegel"
🎶"Claire de Lune"

Reading Virginia Woolf with Pärt or Debussy? becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/r...
Reading Virginia Woolf with Pärt or Debussy?
Roger Fry, Alpes Maritimes from St. Tropez, 1915. “The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.”…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 25
"Les souffles du vent passent encore une fois dans ma vie
Est-ce la répétition du passé ?
Est-ce que la personnalité pourrait résister aux vagues de l’individu ?
Coulez…"

🎨Duncan Grant, Newhaven, 1933.

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Coulez…
Duncan Grant, Newhaven, 1933. Les souffles du vent passent encore une fois dans ma vie Est-ce la répétition du passé ? Est-ce que la personnalité pourrait résister aux vagues de l’individu&nbs…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 23
“Past, present, future dappled her with a strange light.”Virginia Woolf

Does the existence of ladies truly relate to the modern era or to a timeless ‘subjectivity’?

#SaraColeridge #GeorgSimmel

Becoming oneself amidst stereotypes: Sara Coleridge becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
Becoming oneself amidst stereotypes: Sara Coleridge
“Past, present, future dappled her with a strange light.” Virginia Woolf Imagine a lady living in the XIXth century where nearly ‘women’ are considered ‘nothing’; yet is it really the case? Does th…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 20
 “Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee!
Why stays my Love?
Bend, and in yon streamlet – lave thee!
Why stays my Love?” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#VirginiaWoolf #MichelChion #Coleridge

The birth of the stream of consciousness: “The Man At the Gate”… becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/t...
The birth of the stream of consciousness: “The Man At the Gate”…
“Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee! Why stays my Love? Bend, and in yon streamlet – lave thee! Why stays my Love? Oft have I at evening straying, Stood, thy branches long surveying, Graceful in t…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 18
"Osez-vous diagnostiquer les ‘mauvaises odeurs’
Lesquelles engendrent le manque de rythme… ?
L’enjeu plus cardinal en est que
Le bouleversement de l’histoire !
Comme l’échange de costumes !
Les paroles sans cesse…"

🎨Remedios Varo, The Call

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Osez!
Remedios Varo, The Call, 1961. Osez-vous diagnostiquer les ‘mauvaises odeurs’ Lesquelles engendrent le manque de rythme… ? L’enjeu plus cardinal en est que Le bouleversement de l’histoire&nbsp…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 16
Intellectual 's minds are driven by questions to understand & observe society, rather than ‘testing knowledge or being alert to traps’! like bourgeois, -“Inspectors”.

Here’s one of my projects...:

Rethinking the question of gentrification...
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Rethinking the question of gentrification: history invented, or history recovered?
Giorgio de Chirico, Mystère et mélancolie d’une rue, 1914. It has been so long that the question of gentrification involves urban sociology by emphasizing “the desire to revive the spirit of histor…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 13
As I understand from The Bloomsbury Group, photography does not rely on catching the moment but reflecting the reality through a multiplicity of lenses…

#TheBloomsburyPhotographs

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A Multiplicity of Lenses…
Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry at Studland, 1911.[1] Contemplating Roger Fry’s enthusiasm among the wreckages – crumbles of society… This shot taken by Vanessa Bell illustrates how ‘look is so subjective …
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 11
“But it is October 1931, and for a long time now poetry has shirked contact with – what shall we call it? – ” Virginia Woolf
#GeorgSimmel #poetry

🎨Dora Carrington, The Mill at Tdmarsh, 1918.

Dancing with the verses: ‘A Letter To A Young Poet’ becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/d...
Dancing with the verses: ‘A Letter To A Young Poet’
Dora Carrington, The Mill at Tdmarsh, 1918. “Science, they say, has made poetry impossible; there is no poetry in motor cars and wireless. And we have no religion. All is tumultuous and transitiona…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 9
Neoliberal waves have begun in tennis since the 2010s… Stars rise and fall… Appear and then disappear…[...] because of the non-just labeling on players’ societal dignity on and off the courts. That’s really a crucial social fact...
“Keep it Real!” becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/k...
“Keep it Real!”
The vestige of Roland Garros 2025 is a heartbroken story…. The tournament began and ended with idyllic ceremonies organized by the tournament directors who let to remind us of the crucial role of t…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 6
Thinking of Roland Garros 2025, I have remarked three major cases so far in Roland Garros 2025: #Zverev’s struggle, #Sinner’s back, and ‘there is still life in ladies’ tennis'...

#RolandGarros

So Far in Roland Garros 2025! becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/s...
So Far in Roland Garros 2025!
How could I elucidate one of the greatest tennis tournaments amidst Grand Slams? As I was delving into this question, one of the greatest philosophers bridging the XXth and early XXIth centuries cr…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 4
"What can Mr. Bennett be about? I have formed my own opinion of what Mr Bennett is about – he is trying to make us imagine for him; he is trying to hypnotise us into the belief..." V. Woolf
Between the Reality and Realities: ‘Characters in Fiction’ becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/b...
Between the Reality and Realities: ‘Characters in Fiction’
Francis Bacon, Seated Figure, 1961, Tate Britain, London. “But, I ask myself, what is reality? And who are the judges of reality?” Virginia Woolf I was on the verge of pondering the question of ‘ch…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · Jun 2
"Disséquée partout ailleurs, la lumière
J’avais pensé que les lumières que j’avais rencontrées
Dans toute l’obscurité de la ville
C’étaient la lumière
Pourtant
C’est là où le rat blesse"
🎨René Magritte, The Empire of Light, 1954.
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La Lumière Perdue
René Magritte, The Empire of Light, 1954, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Disséquée partout ailleurs, la lumière J’avais pensé que les lumières que j’avais rencontrées Dans toute l…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 30
"C’est la manière des bourgeois à l’égard de la création suis-generis…
Accusations… Médisances…
Façonnée la vie à l’égard du désir schizophrénique du 'Pouvoir'!"

🎨Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, 1942.

Légèreté… becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/l...
Légèreté…
Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, 1942, Tate Britain, London. ‘L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être’ rédigée sous la plume de Kundera… L’auteur de mélancolie… Pourtant quelle phase de la mélancolie : N…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 28
"Hearing the voice of Jean-Luc Nancy…
Parce que ‘nous faisons le sens’….
So, we are in ‘The Doorway’!
Surprising!"

🎨Duncan Grant, The Doorway, 1929.

Surprising…
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Surprising…
Duncan Grant, The Doorway, 1929. Have you ever stumbled into the Tamers of Beasts? Those who are endeavouring to make civilized Even the animals can be civilized! Yet, Have you ever stumbled into t…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 26
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...” Virginia Woolf

📷Katrien De Blauwer, Couleur Pâle 17, 2014.

Parce que rien n’est invariable : “Modern Fiction” becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...
Parce que rien n’est invariable : “Modern Fiction”
Katrien De Blauwer, Couleur Pâle 17, 2014. « La Littérature s’apparente à l’épique de l’ère abandonnée par les dieux » rédigée sous la plume de Heidegger pour mettre en exergue « Le …
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 23
"Crumbling… Fading… made me feel like vanishing…
Amidst art, life is vanishing…
Once bourgeois thought art was just coloring…
Where dreadful mistakes grow like a snowball..."

🎨Duncan Grant, Edward le Bas, 1942.

Still Life! becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/s...
Still Life!
Duncan Grant, Edward le Bas, 1942. Crumbling… Fading… made me feel like vanishing… Amidst art, life is vanishing… Once bourgeois thought art was just coloring… Where dreadful mistakes grow like a s…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 21
La nature était ainsi sur le point de se transformer, de remplacer, de métamorphoser une fois que les bourgeois avaient découvert le 'temps'…
#VirginiaWoolf #NightandDay
🎨Duncan Grant, Still Life with Flowers, 1923.
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Viva la Vida! : Night and Day…
Duncan Grant, Still Life with Flowers, 1923. ‘Le temps perdu’ mettait en exergue Proust comme si l’auteur avait déjà prévu l’avenir… Que disait Marguerite Duras dans La Maladie de la Mort… Voilà, l…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 19
"Turning the pages of darkness
I read lots of stories
That are written for one person
Yet, it has been repeated on the shoulders of another
Just because of looking like…"

🎨Duncan Grant, Garden Path in Spring, 1944

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Last Page…
Duncan Grant, Garden Path in Spring, 1944, Tate Britain, London. Turning the pages of darkness I read lots of stories That are written for one person Yet, it has been repeated on the shoulders of a…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 16
"Tiptoeing while going back to life
From invisible to visible
From fragile to robust
Wandering around the joy
I got my crucial shield
No.
It’s not crowded
No.
It’s not mass
Yet,
It is being yourself"
🎨Georgia O’Keefe, White Flower, 1932
Blossoming… becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/b...
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 14
Mazel Tov #MrsDalloway ✨

"Dès lors, la maladie mentale n’est qu’une invention politique…"

#AxelHonneth #VirginiaWoolf #GeorgesCanguilhem

🎨Remedios Varo, Ladies’ Suit, 1957.

« La maladie mentale est ainsi ‘inventée’ » aurait dit Mrs. Dalloway… becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/l...
« La maladie mentale est ainsi ‘inventée’ » aurait dit Mrs. Dalloway…
Remedios Varo, Ladies’ Suit, 1957. “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Nor the furious winter’s rages.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Les vestiges de la Première Guerre mondiale ne laissent apparaîtr…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 12
"The great judges, guardians of acts,
Now waiting with their crucial
Labels
What for?
To understand
To enable communication with difference
No."

📷Lorna Simpson, Bits and Pieces, 1989.

Labels… becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/l...
Labels…
Lorna Simpson, Bits and Pieces, 1989. The great judges, guardians of acts, Now waiting with their crucial Labels What for? To understand To enable communication with difference No. To categorize To…
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Özden Turhan @ozdenvirginia.bsky.social · May 9
" [...] one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." Virginia Woolf

Seeking Light in the Midst of ‘Obscurity’: “How Should One Read a Book?” becomingvirginiawoolf.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/s...
Seeking Light in the Midst of ‘Obscurity’: “How Should One Read a Book?”
Georgia O’Keeffe, Calle de Nueva York con luna, 1925, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. “‘No, because they don’t read it as we read it,’ Katherine insisted.” Virginia Woolf, Night and Day.…
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