FOREWORD

Throughout history, man has developed tools to make his life easier. Today, for the first time, we are in an era where the tools we have developed are shaping us. The issue is no longer how smart machines have become, but how artificial human beings have become.

The dossier subject of this issue, "The End of Technological Slavery: Homunculus Man," addresses how, in the process ranging from artificial intelligence to digital addiction and from algorithms to biotechnology, man has begun to surrender his will, attention, and judgment to external systems. Technology, which entered our lives with the promise of comfort and speed, is reshaping our way of thinking and our relationship with truth without us even noticing.

The problem is not technology; it is that man has ceased to be the sovereign subject over technology and has transformed into an object directed by it. The real danger is not the strengthening of the machine, but man's beginning to reconstruct his own essence according to the logic of the machine.

The greatest struggle of the coming period will be the struggle for man to remain human. This dossier does not invite us to reject technology, but to rethink the intellectual and moral foundation that will keep it at the service of humanity.

CONTENTS

The Machine Riddle - Ömer Emre Akcebe

Missing the Rhythm of Life - Betül Deniz

The Previously Unpublished Speech Delivered by Thinker Salih Mirzabeyoğlu at Ankara ESAV on January 28, 1989

Nevzat Şipleme: To Which Conception of Truth and Which Order of Life Shall We Tie Technology?

Artificial Intelligence and the "Age of Connectivity" - Yavuz Arslan

The Age of Closing Doors - Taha İnci

Organization and Action from the Great East Window - Dr. Kâzım Albayrak

The Temperament of Form and Spirit within the Framework of the "Atlas of Faith and Islam" - Oğuzhan Kulaksız

The Englishman... - İbrahim Tatlı

Monthly Baran Magazine Issue 47 is Out

Sheikh Nazim's Struggle During the Years the Adhan Was Banned - Handan Özduygu

The Oppression of the Turkish Adhan - Murat Akdemir

Interview with Sheikh Ali Yakub Cenkçiler

The Reformist/Clown Alliance of Academia and Social Media - Yavuz Arslan

On Salih Mirzabeyoğlu's Work "The Great Sufferers" -4- (III) - Mehmet Sami Pınar

Who Stole the Spirit of Art? - Eda Topar

On the Film In Time - Muzaffer Ayvalıoğlu