Welcome to issue six of The Attention Span Newsletter by me, Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil. I’m a writer, a literary translator, an artist and a curator of cultural programmes based in Amsterdam.Every other week, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature. Each issue has a short essay, a nerdy look at translation, a page from one of my notebooks, a list of things to read, watch or listen to.This podcast is made for those of you who prefer an audio experience. You can also support my work via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theattentionspan Thank you for your presence and attention!EPISODE 6 SHOW NOTES:Read/ Wavelength – Longitud de onda, by Cristina Lucas. I came across this book at the Kranenburghmuseum shop, where Lucas’s exhibition The Environment is us, is on show. I must admid I haven’t read the book yet, but I browsed through and it’s very well designed, with photographs of the artists’ work. What interests me particularly are the different essays in it, which touch on capitalism, the environment and climate change, how Lucas is looking at the mechanisms of power, analysing fundamental structures in politics, economics, in society. So, this book definitely is on my radar. https://mudamstore.com/products/cristina-lucas-wavelengthWatching/ Right now, I am obsessed with a Turkish soap called Kizilcik Serbeti (which has been translated as Cranberry Sorbet but also as “One Love”), and I am definitely going to write about it in a future issue of this newsletter. It’s a kind of Romeo and Juliet story set in Istanbul, today, where the children of two families coming from totally opposite social backgrounds get married. The young woman is from a liberal, so-called “modern” family and the young man is from an ultra-conservative and mega rich family. They’re not enemies like the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, but their views of the world clash a lot, which creates a lot of (melo)drama. It’s perfect as a soap but also gives an interesting perspective on today’s highly polarised societies (Turkey in this case, but we could definitely read it from other places too). https://youtube.com/@kizilcikserbetidiziListening to/ Whenever I feel a bit lost, especially in my creative practice, I turn to poet, musician, writer Patti Smith who reminds me that what matters is to keep doing the work. I love this conversation between Patti and Malcolm Gladwell in this episode of the podcastBroken Record. It’s from March 2022 but never gets old:https://open.spotify.com/episode/05Rsbe8yTl3VEjOKqJaoJ6?si=KYKp87i9R_OZJLE-M-Y6QA

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