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Ulus Baker (1960 in Leningrad, USSR - ) is a TurkishCypriot sociologist. Baker was born to a cosmopolitan family. He had completed his studies at METU in Ankara and began to work as an academician at the Sociology Department of METU. Baker has lived in Russia (then the Soviet Union), Turkey, France, and Cyprus (the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Baker is an influential figure in contemporary Turkish political thinking, 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 and his fields of interest range from literary criticism to the cinema of Dziga Vertov. He has contributed to rise the interest for the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Baruch Spinoza through his translations and lectures. His political stance made him also 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 Center) of METU.

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