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Ölümün otobüs durağinda evini bulmak: Bir internet topluluğunda çetin bedenler ve mütelevvin deneyim

2025
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Advisor: Doç. Dr. Ceren Özselçuk ; Doç. Dr. Saygun Gökarıksel

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In this work, I look at posts from alt.suicide.holiday (ASH), a defunct unmoderated internet community frequented by suicidal people, to analyze narratives that they share in an environment not subject to "expert" oversight. I claim that breaking the silence around suicide described by Baril (2018) and Webb (2011) allows ASHers to constitute a tenuous experience within the narrative space of the group that is denied to them elsewhere. Using ASH as a surface of visibility, I look at wider social, discursive and material structures shaping ASHers' degraded living such as narrative processes of redirection, obfuscation and erasure (that contribute to the further degradation of their experience), a peculiar form of secondary subjection constituting suicidals as fragile subjects, and an organization of the field of practice around suicide that qualifies it as a form of consumption in Certeau's (1984) terms with important consequences for how ASHers experience their bodies.

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Dr. Dan Tcacı

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Dan Tcacı (Master Thesis). Ölümün otobüs durağinda evini bulmak: Bir internet topluluğunda çetin bedenler ve mütelevvin deneyim, 2025, Boğaziçi University.

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