Tectonics of a Scientific Journal: History | Technology | Design

Authors : Serdar Aydın

Pages : 3-10

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Publication Date : 2025-07-16

Article Type : Editorial

Abstract :The tectonics of scientific journal are subject to the complexities of emergent scientific conditions—provisional occupations of space, spontaneous social infrastructures, hybrid typologies of knowledge production or disruptive digital interfaces—often defy disciplinary categories. They appear unfamiliar, even unintelligible, until we learn to recognize the tectonic systems they reveal or disrupt. As a form and forum, the journal must endure and respond to the realities of technological lag—especially within the shifting boundaries of history, technology and design in the digital age. At their intersection, the new scope of the International Journal of Mardin Studies (IJMS) arises as a platform for questioning both the technological and analogue modes of scientific production. IJMS seeks to foreground the creative potential and resistant capacities of historical perspectives—particularly those rooted in Mesopotamian and regional knowledge systems—in response to the technological paradigms that dominate today’s scientific landscape. However, this does not imply a retreat into localism. On the contrary, the journal positions itself within a wider intellectual spectrum, where history, technology and design serve as expansive and intersecting domains of inquiry. These three axes allow for a multiplicity of perspectives, methodologies and geographies—bridging the local with the global, the past with the speculative, the analogue with the digital. In this issue, four research articles and one book review contributes to IJMS’ ongoing inquiry into these intersecting fields. The first article investigates local architecture in Mardin as outcomes of historical design processes. In contrast, the second article moves in quite the opposite direction, proposing a speculative framework for human-AI interaction. The third article offers a critical perspective on imperialist politics and orientalist scholarship, while the final piece article brings the focus back to Mardin through a book review that reflects on regional context and intellectual production.
Keywords : Bilim, Tektonik, Tarih, Teknoloji, Tasarım

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