Devrim Yavuz

@devrimyavuz.bsky.social

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Sociologist @CUNY @ Lehman College, author of Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey, currently spending savings from quitting smoking on records, films and olive oil

Interior of a French hardware store selling wine next to batteries
Front page of Liberation: Bleu roi Zidane
Nyt headline about how Spain won the world cup without any stars
Zidane jersey
Zidane France jersey
The Spanish football player Puyol with long curly hair
Belgian football jersey in light blue and pink with the words "ceci n'est pas un maillot" written in italic just under the neck
Cover of "Gaston Lagaffe Champion" where comic book character Gaston Lagaffe is scoring with a bicycle kick.
Poster of Out of Sight with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez
Car sitting next to a Zidane France jersey
Japan football jersey with logo of the JFA with black crow
Cat interrupts his grooming startled by the France Zidane jersey next to him
Various Japanese album covers
Nyt headline: Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say The women are among nearly two dozen people slated to be sent to a country where the U.S. government has advised “Do not travel for any reason.”
A cat named Destry sleeping on a book called The Rise of Organized Brutality
Dry Cleaning in concert at the Basilica
Album cover with the text : Arcade Fire presents “Open Your Heart or Die Trying”; an ambient release that imagines their latest album, “Pink Elephant”, as a new sonic landscape, a score to a film that hasn’t been made yet.
A long haired cat named Destry is sleeping next two to pairs of adidas
Nyt headline that reports that immigrants in the US are afraid to file taxes, which could cost the government billions
A tabby cat sitting like a loaf looking spaced out
From the newspaper liberation graph showing participation rates in municipal elections.
Poster of mean streets with the main characters
Cats Destry and Marlowe curled up sleeping in the exact mirror opposite of each other
Norwegian skier having a meltdown because he cheated on his girlfriend and then won the bronze medal at some kind of cross country skiing event and then decided to publicly get her involved
He was entirely unconcerned with the form in which he presented his wealth of ideas. So many things came to him out of that storehouse of his mind, once the mass [of ideas] was in motion, that many times they could not be readily forced into a lucid sentence structure. And he wants to be done with it quickly and be brief about it on top of that, because ever new problems of reality crowd in upon him. What a limitation of discursive thought that it does not per-mit the simultaneous expression of several lines of thought which belong together! Therefore, much must be pressed hurriedly into long involved periods and what cannot be accommodated there has to be put into the footnotes. After all, let the reader take as much trouble with these matters as he had done himself.2
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney on the set of Gravity
Poster for incredible but true
CBS news headline about Peter Attia with his picture: Dr. Peter Attia, longevity expert, apologizes for "indefensible" emails to Jeffrey Epstein
Some Senegalese soccer players leaving a stadium
Lindt joining the Dubai chocolate wave
weeks ago I gave my last lecture at Harvard, where I have been a history professor for forty years. My four decades of experience at one of the world’s leading universities have given me a unique vantage point to trace the replacement of Western history by global history. This change is part of the reason why the younger generation finds itself in a state of moral and intellectual disorientation.
Two cats sleeping curled up in the same exact position
Article with the headline "A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 4 Years"
A w.b. Mason office supply truck with the portrait of its founder that looks like Kyle MacLachlan.
Zidane and Mbappé shaking hands
Michael Mann's typologies of state shown in a 2x2 table where Feudal states (Low Infrastructural, Low despotic), Imperial/Absolutist states (High Desp, Low Infra), Bureaucratic-democratic (Low desp-High desp) and Authoritarian states (High Infra, and High Desp) are each represented in a quadrant. There is a citation, it is on page 60 of Mann's 1993 volume Sources of Social Power.
Screenshot of a nyt headline: South Koreans Are Among Hundreds Detained in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. Plant Nearly 500 workers were apprehended at a construction site for a South Korean battery maker in Georgia, officials said. The episode prompted diplomatic concern in Seoul.
Screenshot of a New York time lead: U.S. imports and exports rebounded slightly in July following several months of sluggish trade, as Americans rushed to bring in gold, equipment for A.I. data centers and other foreign products in the month before President Trump’s most punishing tariffs went into effect
The cover of Girgir with two party leaders (Ecevit and Demirel) who cannot agree on how to take the country out of civil conflict while people are fighting behind them
Picture of an AI generated rock band
NYT readers choice 100 best movies: My ballot. The royal Tenenbaums The Square Parasite About Dry Glasses Anora Pain and Glory The Worst Person in the World Amelie Roma Mad Max: Fury Road
Scene from the Princess Bride where Wesley with a sword in his hand cockily thinks that a band of soldiers wish to surrender to him.
Me holding a sign saying "Bruce is a better boss" with a Bruce born in the USA t-shirt
Sarah Polley, Seth Rogan, and Catherine O'Hara sitting on director chairs on a movie set
Penguin looking at pebbles
Two cats sleeping in two separate boxes next to each other
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton watching a movie together on a couch with Tilda Swinton leaning on Julianne Moore in the movie the Room Next Door
Cover of Albert. O. Hirschman's book The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph.
Record bin that has Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Eminem
Email with my name appearing as Revolution Yavuz rather than Devrim Yavuz
A Playmobil toy camping car set with 5 figurines dressed in various bright colors
Tote bag from a record store, Le Laboratoire with a small pile of records with Alain Bashung's Passe Le Rio Grande on top.
Picture of a sunset taken from an airplane window