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
Indonesia
The definition of “Indonesia” transcends old walls. Indonesians are anyone who considers it their homeland.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, August 19, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.