Bio:
Bülent Diken teaches Social and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University and Kadir Has University. His main research areas include social theory, cultural theory, political philosophy, cinema, and urbanization. His major books are Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory (Ashgate, 1998), The Culture of Exception (Routledge, 2005; co-authored with Carsten B. Laustsen), Sociology Through the Projector (Routledge, 2008; co-authored with Carsten B. Laustsen), Nihilism (Routledge, 2009), Revolt, Revolution, Critique (Routledge, 2012), God, Politics, Economy (Routledge, 2015), The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (IB Tauris, 2018; co-authored with Graeme Gilloch and Craig Hammond), and The New Despotism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
