Penyair, esais, pelukis. Catatan Pinggir telah terhimpun dalam 14 jilid. Buku terbarunya, antara lain, Albert Camus: Tubuh dan Sejarah, Eco dan Iman, Estetika Hitam, Dari Sinai sampai Alghazali.
Konten
Thermopylae
Thermopylae is a word that tells the story of human courage and resilience, even in defeat. Sekali berarti sudah itu mati (an instance of being meaningful, and then you die).
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, November 13, 2023
Djoko Pekik (1937-2023)
Djoko Pekik’s canvases are always filled with humor, never tension. They were made for us, with us, to entertain us, and remind us.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, August 21, 2023
The Deaf-Blind Girl
Helen Keller, a deaf-blind woman, became known throughout the world for being able to read and writing 14 books.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, June 19, 2023
The Big Train
School was the big train that would take them to their destination: a higher social status. So they were willing to pay in any way they can.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, June 12, 2023
The Body
ChatGPT is not human. But is it true that the body distances us from knowledge?
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, May 15, 2023
Aindua
There are externally forced ‘work’ and independently done ‘work’. In other words, ‘work’ can be interpreted into more than one meaning.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, May 1, 2023
Forty-Six Years Later
Goenawan Mohamad writes in defense of Sidelines. Now, 46 years later, Sidelines has been replaced by Marginalia.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, April 3, 2023
HAL 9000
In an interview with the BBC in late 2014, Hawking said: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate.”
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, March 13, 2023
Zhuangzi
During this virulent political antagonism, a person became a philosopher because he could not avoid reflecting upon what was going on. And he even thought hard about finding a way out—if there was any way out—of the human suffering around him.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, March 6, 2023
Vengeance
It is right for us to oppose the death sentence, because the death sentence contains the haste to say “stop.”
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, February 27, 2023
Sarina
The Islamic revolution in Iran projects the God of Islam as a forbidding force, anti-joy, suspicious of women, without mercy, and constantly alert. It is like the behavior of the God of the Old Testament: ‘a jealous God’.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, February 20, 2023
Kerta Gosa
Justice is not the never-ending search for retribution, but rather the desire for balance—even though this may be fragile and fleeting.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, February 13, 2023
Justice
Justice is invaluable. It cannot be written off as mere fantasy. It is ‘real’ when those who tyrannize do not acknowledge it.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, February 6, 2023
Eliezer
You were involved, Richard, but I do not want the State to punish you. You have changed. You were the one who revealed this scandal, whatever your motive might have been.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, January 30, 2023
The Past
History seems to want to close wounds. As though wanting to wipe trauma, the past begs for forgiveness.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, January 23, 2023
The Shadow
A Hans Christian Andersen’s story of a shadow that transformed into human.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, January 16, 2023
Sambo
In the The Drama of Sambo, it turns out that one important element in democracy (often forgotten) can actually be upheld: the armed forces, which are given the right to monopoly of violence, bow before those who hold authority without arms.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, January 9, 2023
December 25
Birth is the beginning as yet untouched by history. When it symbolizes the arrival of a teaching, then that teaching can be assumed to be still ‘innocent’—as yet untested by interpretation, conflict, denial and violence.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, January 2, 2023
The Keeper
Soccer is the globalization of capital and internationalization of teamwork. Boundaries of nation, citizenship and religion are no longer relevant. Money is the reformer that increasingly often shifts previously revered values.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, December 26, 2022
The Criminal Code
Sex and love operate in the private world, in an area that cannot be scrutinized by ulema, pastors, village heads or the criminal police.