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
![Ilustration: Edi RM](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2024/08/16/867923/867923_400.jpg)
Indonesia
The definition of “Indonesia” transcends old walls. Indonesians are anyone who considers it their homeland.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, August 19, 2024
![Ilustration: Edy RM](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2024/07/14/865381/865381_400.jpg)
Germinal
Émile Zola wrote Germinal after he researched the lives of coal miners. He became infuriated with the insatiable ogre of capitalism.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, July 15, 2024
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Sea
The coast is an anathema. Up until the 20th century, the language of coastal people was not considered worthy of being ‘true’ Javanese.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, June 3, 2024
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Kurchatov
Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, knew of the devastating impact of the weapons of mass destruction he created. In the Soviet Union, there was a hydrogen bomb inventor with equal notoriety.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, March 25, 2024
![Market. Ilustrasi/Edy RM](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2024/03/17/856876/856876_400.jpg)
Market
The market is indeed the drama of our time. Even power and control can be offered and bargained for or made dull.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, March 18, 2024
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Ethics
Politics is a field that leaves plenty of space for anyone to commit evil. Those who swear to take an ethical stance in politics should prepare themselves for ridicule.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, February 5, 2024
![Airlangga. Ilustration TEMPO/Imam Yunianto](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2024/01/02/850856/850856_400.jpg)
Airlangga
One does not need to be an expert in Machiavellianism to know that power in politics is not something that can be judged ethically.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, January 1, 2024
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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
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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
![Ilustrasi Tempo/Imam Yunianto](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2023/06/19/834277/834277_400.jpg)
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
![Ilustration Imam Yunianto](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2023/06/12/833697/833697_400.jpg)
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
![Ilustration Tempo/Imam Yunianto](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2023/05/15/831346/831346_400.jpg)
The Body
ChatGPT is not human. But is it true that the body distances us from knowledge?
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, May 15, 2023
![Ilustration Tempo/Imam Yunianto](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2023/04/30/830156/830156_400.jpg)
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
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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
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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
![Sidelines: Salman Rushdie](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2022/08/28/808932/808932_400.jpg)
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
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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
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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
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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
![Sidelines: Salman Rushdie](https://images-tm.tempo.co/all/2022/08/28/808932/808932_400.jpg)
Justice
Justice is invaluable. It cannot be written off as mere fantasy. It is ‘real’ when those who tyrannize do not acknowledge it.