Ulus Baker

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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 and Istanbul Bilgi University.