Zümre Gizem Yılmaz. Kozmik Koreografi: Bedenlerin Element Dansı (İstanbul: Yeni İnsan Yayınevi, 2023)

Abstract

Zümre Gizem Yılmaz's written work, titled Cosmic Choreography: The Elemental Dance of Bodies, issued in 2023, argues with a posthuman and ecocritical approach that how small humans are in the cosmic choreography of the universe, regardless of their realization of being "one." The author addresses that there are four essential elements in the universe by using four literary works to illustrate that humans are a whole with the unending universe; in this sense, when humans disregard the agency of the elements and dispose themselves at the centre to substantiate their superiority, they actually drag themselves to their own demise. For Yılmaz, humans can reconcile with themselves and become 'one' with the universe by standing outside of anthropocentric approach, purifying themselves from arrogance, and accepting the agency of the elements.