Hossein Turner
Hossein Turner | |
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| Born | July 5, 1982 |
| Residence | Durham, UK, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
| Known for | Electric Universe, Freelance journalist and writer |
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| Fields | Freelance writer and researcher |
Hossein Turner (born 5 July 1982) is a British freelance writer, journalist and researcher. His interests are wide-ranging, spanning geopolitics, macroeconomics, energy and environmental issues, technology and cosmology. Within the Electric Universe community he is known for articles and commentary supporting plasma cosmology and Electric Universe theory.
Biography
Turner studied at Durham University in the United Kingdom and went on to work as a freelance writer and journalist, contributing articles on politics, technology, energy and the environment. He has been associated with environmental and sustainability initiatives, including the Peak Oil project CollapseNet and permaculture and Transition Towns groups in the UK.
He later pursued postgraduate study in the philosophy of technology, undertaking doctoral research at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute (MEDIT) at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey, where his work centres on the thought of the French thinker Jacques Ellul, the concept of "technique" and dialectical theology. Alongside his research he has worked as a language instructor at Bursa Technical University.
Work
Turner became interested in plasma cosmology and Electric Universe theory in the early 2010s and published articles and blog pieces intended to popularise the subject. In 2012 he set out a tentative hypothesis relating terrestrial field-aligned (Birkeland) currents to mesocyclone phenomena. He also maintained a blog, The Media Discerner, on which he discussed Electric Universe topics and related matters.
In his later academic work Turner has written on the philosophy of technology. His article "The internet as a sacred and irrational space within the Ellulian milieu of 'technique'" was published in the journal Explorations in Media Ecology in 2022, examining whether digital "virtuality" constitutes a distinct milieu within Ellul's framework of technique.
Abstracts
- 2012 - "Terrestial Field-Aligned Currents and Mesocyclone Phenomena: A Tentative Hypothesis" (Read in full)
External links
- The Media Discerner (blog)
- Hossein Turner at Academia.edu
- Hossein Turner at ORCID