About the Author

Talha Can İşsevenler, Ph.D., is a theoretical and ethnographic sociologist and psychoanalyst who teaches at City College and John Jay College, CUNY. His work examines temporality, technology and power across political sociology, media studies, psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. He earned his doctorate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and his bachelor’s degree in Social and Political Sciences at Sabancı University.

His publications investigate algorithmic time, political action and the transformation of subjectivity. Drawing on participant observation of direct action between 2011 and 2020, his ethnographic research explores how social media feeds reshape political movements. His articles in Subjectivity and The Agonist examine Facebook’s nonhuman temporality, Nietzschean approaches to digital power and machine-learning algorithms. His collaborative publications bring psychoanalysis into conversation with media theory through questions of bodies, narrative and datafication.

He is the author of the open-access textbook Political Sociology (2025). His chapter “Learning in the New Dispersed Prime Time” (2026) explores post-disciplinary time in education and the role of Go in artificial intelligence. His current research turns toward unconscious temporalities and speed as a political, technological and ontological category.