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Ulus Baker (1960 in Leningrad, USSR - ) is a Turkish Cypriot sociologist. Baker was born to a cosmopolitan family. He completed his studies at METU in Ankara and began to work as an academic in the Department of Sociology of the same institution shortly thereafter. Baker has lived in Russia (then the Soviet Union), Turkey, France, and Cyprus (the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus).

Baker is an influential figure in contemporary Turkish political theory, both as a frequent author in major academic and intellectual periodicals and as a professor of sociology, media, and film theory. He is a polyglot, his fields of interest ranging from literary criticism to the cinema of Dziga Vertov. He has contributed to the rise in interest in the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Baruch Spinoza through a variety of translations and lecture series. His political commitments inspired him to initiate the Autonomist political/artistic collective Körotonomedya. He is among the forerunners of video art in Turkey.

Baker currently teaches Modern Visual Arts and Visual Thinking at GİSAM (Audio Visual Systems Research and Production Centre) of METU.

External links

• What is Opinion? a video lecture by Baker
• Körotonomedya website of the collective
• Ulus Baker at METU Academic Staff Catalogue

• 1960 births
• Living people
• Middle East Technical University alumni
• Middle East Technical University faculty
• Turkish academics
• Turkish scientists
• Turkish non-fiction writers
• Literary critics
• Sociologists
• Turkish Cypriots