Samet Yalçın

Samet Yalçın is a university assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Arts Linz, Department of Art History and Art Theory within the Institute of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies, and member of the PhD Research Collective. He also teaches at Marmara University and Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul.

His educational background includes:

• PhD candidate in Art History and Art Theory at University of Arts Linz
• MA in Social Thought from Bilgi University, Istanbul
• BA in Philosophy and Sociology from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

Yalçın's research centers on the ontology of space/place and topology of in/finitude, explored in his doctoral thesis Encounters at the End of the World: A Topological Nekrikoi Dialogue Between Heidegger, Platonov, and Fedorov. His interdisciplinary approach spans planetary thinking, philosophy of technology, temporality, Russian avant-garde, and affect theory through philosophy, sociology, literature, and anthropology.

No scientific articles, awards, or research grants are documented. Yalçın has no known advisees.

He has translated major works including Byung Chul Han's Tiredness Society and Anne Dufourmantelle's Power of Gentleness, plus numerous articles for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine by scholars like Stephen Kern and Andreas Huyssen.

Teaching includes Nature and Art, Art in the Age of Anthropocene, and Lines and Gestures: A History of Images at Marmara University, and Photographing the World at Mimar Sinan University.

As an active member of the PhD Research Collective at University of Arts Linz, he contributes to collaborative academic initiatives in art theory and cultural studies.