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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Ćzge Ćelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
Description: āStories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearanceāfeared by some, desired by others,āĀ writes Thomas Keenan.Ā Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.maĀ (DPR Barcelona, June 2024) is about those stories and much more. Ćzge Ćelikaslan usesĀ bak.ma, a digital media archive born out of the social movements in Turkey, to guide us through a journey in which archives become sites of other kinds of storiesāsome of solidarity, activism, and the commons. Ćelikaslan uses the concept of archives of...