Füsun Türetken

Füsun Türetken is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, affiliated with the Master Non Linear Narrative program. Her interdisciplinary work bridges visual culture, media theory, and critical inquiry through research-based art practices focused on uncovering erased histories and imagining alternative futures using speculative fiction methodologies.

Her research interests include:

• Visual Culture
• Media Theory
• Critical Theory
• Environmental Humanities
• Political Economy
• Speculative Fiction
• Activism

She investigates metals as quasi-agents influencing political conflicts and capitalist systems, examining their roles in finance, belief systems, geopolitical relations, digital bodies, and climate-engineered weapons while highlighting complicity in ecocide processes.

Dr. Türetken holds a PhD with her doctoral thesis "On the Most Powerful Catalyst on the Planet" exploring metals' agency across multiple societal domains. The trickster figure informs her approach to navigating institutional structures and subverting hierarchies through archival silences.

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