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
Fikri Jufri: Civic Courage in a Difficult Time
Fikri Jufri was known as a young journalist with a vast social circle. He displayed civic courage during difficult times.
In Memoriam Edisi : Monday, March 17, 2025
Exile
Israeli authorities call for the ‘voluntary migration’ of Palestinians so that the Jewish people can settle freely. They forget their history.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, January 27, 2025
On Goodness
The world still needs good people. But what is considered good has no clear law.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, November 18, 2024
Tumapel
Power is never without crisis. Tumapel shows power as a story of unending antagonism.
Marginalia Edisi : Monday, October 7, 2024
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.