hypersubject.net and sculpting
I’m excited for 2026.
2025 was a good year for me. After quitting my startup, which was going nowhere, at the end of 2024, I entered 2025 rejuvenated. As a result I read more, experimented more, travelled more, did more… I feel like 2025 was a stepping stone for 2026.
What I was up to in the first week of 2026?
hypersubject.net
My online presence is highly fragmented.
I have a personal and “professional” web site at https://ege.dev where I mostly post my technical writings. I also have a content type that I call “beats” which are unlisted, they only show up in the RSS feed. I was using beats to post short form updates that are usually personal. I have a photo gallery at that site as well.
Another blog I have is https://bengidoom.com. I have been putting my Turkish writing at this blog for some time. Writings there are mostly political. My thinking is also mostly political.
I have had two twitter accounts since 2023. One where I was posting in English and engaging with a twitter scene called TPOT, and the other where I was posting in Turkish and engaging with political scene in Turkey. I abandoned both of them. I joined twitter at a time when I needed connection with others and these accounts served their purpose. Now they just make me feel disconnected.
I was always wary about putting my “real” identity out there. That’s why I heavily compartmentalized my online presence. What if people make fun of my writing? What if I write something dumb? It was easier to hide behind a mask. Turns out this problem of self-confidence is not something you can get away with putting on a mask. “Only way out is through.”
hypersubject.net is my attempt to have an unified space on the internet. I (almost) merged everything into a single place in the last two days. I say almost because there is still work to do. I still need to put my photo gallery here for example. No rush, the year is still young.
In 2026, I want to explore the indieweb and fediverse. hypersubject.net is just the first step.
Sculpting
Last year I visited Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris. I was fascinated by many sculptures, especially the works of Auguste Rodin and Paul Gauguin. When we returned to Istanbul, while buying a gift for a friend, I also bought some modelling clay for myself on a whim.
In 2025 I did a few sculptures. They are not good. But making them was fun. And that’s the important part. I had the same experience when I started programming when I was 19. It was hard, I was not immediately good at it, but it was fun.
This week I did three more sculptures. They are not good but each one is the best I have done so far. I’m excited to do more in 2026.
Also, my friends gifted me a book about sculpting for new year: Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind Krauss. I am very excited to read it after finishing the current book I’m reading.
Venezuela
I was sickened by the news from Venezuela yesterday. Imperial war machine is on the move.
I understand the sentiment of some Venezuelans I read online: Maduro was not a benevolent leader of Venezuelans. At his best, he was just like our Erdoğan. But I don’t believe that the USA’s intervention will bring anything good to Venezuela and its people. If anything, this will only produce more Maduros.
The abduction of Maduro was a shameless act. We have been living in a shameless world for some time now; there is no agency that can induce shame. There is no agency that can force countries to play diplomatically or find excuses for their imperialistic ambitions. Israel’s genocide in Gaza was the last blow and with that the glass is shattered. There is no big Other. Or, in Dostoevsky’s words “If there is no God, everything is permitted.”