Sezgin Boynik (or Sezgin Bojnik, 1977, Prizren, Kosovo) is a sociologist and art theorist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Helsinki platform Rab-Rab Press and a co-founder of the publishing house Pykë/Shuplak-Shuplak Press based in Prizren.
He has completed his Ph.D. in Jyväskylä University Social Science department on the topic of Cultural Politics of Black Wave in Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1972.
He has been publishing on punk, the relation between aesthetics and politics, on cultural nationalism, Situationist International, and Yugoslavian cinema. Co-edited reader Nationalism and Contemporary Art (with Minna L. Henriksson, Rhizoma & EXIT, Prishtina, 2007), and co-authored book on History of Punk and Underground in Turkey, 1978-19Sezgin Boynik (or Sezgin Bojnik, 1977, Prizren, Kosovo) is a sociologist and art theorist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Helsinki platform Rab-Rab Press and a co-founder of the publishing house Pykë/Shuplak-Shuplak Press based in Prizren.
He has completed his Ph.D. in Jyväskylä University Social Science department on the topic of Cultural Politics of Black Wave in Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1972.
He has been publishing on punk, the relation between aesthetics and politics, on cultural nationalism, Situationist International, and Yugoslavian cinema. Co-edited reader Nationalism and Contemporary Art (with Minna L. Henriksson, Rhizoma & EXIT, Prishtina, 2007), and co-authored book on History of Punk and Underground in Turkey, 1978-1999 (with Tolga Guldalli, BAS, Istanbul, 2008)....more