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
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
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 Now, 46 years later, Sidelines has been replaced by Marginalia.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
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
Prophecies
The ancient literati used apocalyptic pattern in their prophecies of social and political shocks.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, November 7, 2022
Bomb A
In August 1945, it turned out to be not Germany, but America that succeeded in producing and using this new type of bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were razed, and Japan surrendered. Germany was too late.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, August 22, 2022
Deduction
Detectives begin work by questioning, “Who did this?” “Who did the killing?” “What was the motive?” To them, deduction is to focus on something specific while at the same time analyzing people, victims, motives, and events.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, August 15, 2022
Thermopylae
Freedom is always fragile. People always need the will to fight for it, whether in Ancient Greece or in Mariupol in the 21st century.
Sidelines Edisi : Thursday, April 28, 2022
Block
In Bergman’s film, The Seventh Seal, Block does not seem worried that it will all be pointless. He is returning from war, he has travelled through plague territory. He has seen how easily lives are lost. The thin knight with the tense expression is anxious not because of Death, but because God is silent. He has found no basis to his faith. Faith is a torment.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, July 26, 2021
Advertising
These days, truth—which makes an appearance every now and then—seems unable to touch ground. It leaves no trace.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, December 7, 2020
The Workers
GOENAWAN MOHAMAD
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Ruslan
Goenawan Mohamad
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, October 26, 2020
Year Zero
Goenawan Mohamad
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Sure
FOR centuries, pestilence has meant uncertainty. Today too.
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, May 26, 2020
WHISPERERS
A French philosopher, aged 60, travelled 2,100 kilometers by horse-driven carriage to meet an empress in Russia.
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Experts
THE 2020 pandemic: it is not only the virus that is spreading so fast, but also questions. Uncertainty, in other words.
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Hagiography
Back in those days, I would listen to my mother’s stories as she lulled the children to sleep. She knew that sleep was investment for a fresh new day. In the 20th century, stories had become ‘technology’.
Sidelines Edisi : Monday, February 24, 2020
Stillness
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness—Meister Eckhart
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Godse
Three bullets fired into Gandhi’s emaciated body, at close range. The assassin was trying to change India’s history. He failed—or at least he failed at that moment. Because today we are wondering whether that long submerged hatred can ever change.
Sidelines Edisi : Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Delight
Long before there were malls, long before malls began their slow death, Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar in the 15th century spread over 58 busy streets.