Modern Dünyanın Gündelik Hayatında Müphem Konumlar ve Bir Dışlama Pratiği Örneği Olarak Rembetiko Filmi
Ambiguous Positions In Everyday Life Of The Modern World And The Film “Rembetiko” As An Example Of Exclusion Practice

Summary/Abstract: While grounding on the thought of rationalization and science, the idea of modernity, the foundations of which are based on the Enlightenment Thought, has organized the worlds of living in daily life by reorganizing them unilaterally. Modernity, according to Zygmunt Bauman, has built ambiguous positions at the same time while planning all daily life institutions and structures according to rational motives. Modernity has treated the individual as a citizen within the structure of the nation-state, while dragging those who cannot be articulated into the system or identified within, into the position of an outsider. While foreignness has been present as the opposite of the citizen as an ambiguous political position, many assimilation and exclusion techniques has emerged in the nation-states at the beginning of the 20th century. During this political process, the reorganization of time and space, as the structural components of daily life in the modern world, emerges as the pattern of the domination relations of the period. In his sociological imagination, Henri Lefebvre handled everyday life in a Marxist sense and defined it within the philosophy of Praxis. In this regard, the rhythm and spatial dimension of daily life transforms the individual by affecting their social lives. The film “Rembetiko”, which deals with the social events that took place during the population exchange between Turkey and Greece at the beginning of the 20th century through an individual life story, is a cinematic representation of a group of people who were unable to be articulated into social life and were dragged into the position of a stranger. While the rhythm of Rembetiko music in the film overlaps with the rhythm of the individual and social drama experienced, on the one hand, it also stands out as a field of resistance against the reorganizing style of modern society and becomes the representation of the exclusion practice in the social area. This study discusses Costas Ferris’ “Rembetiko” from a critical perspective by considering the spatial and temporal functioning of daily life, which functions as exclusion and inclusion in the modern world through the relevant theoretical perspective.

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