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INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER · ISTANBUL
Hakkı Tan
An independent researcher working across sociology, critical theory, health, technology, and decision systems.
HT2026
My work asks why the conditions that make an outcome possible often disappear at the moment that outcome becomes visible.
Reality Paradigm, Onopticon, Homovictimus, Judgment Syntax, Metabolic Ambush, and Cytopolitics are not terms dispersed across unrelated fields. They are expressions of one question at different scales: while the subject genuinely performs an act, who produces its object, its choice set, its biological ground, and the judgement later pronounced upon it?
“The aim is not for everyone to read me. The aim is to make it difficult to discuss the problem completely without reading me.”