Title: “LASKAR ORBA: Abjection Your Honour!: (police-)state-imposed self-hatred in Riri Riza’s later movies” Supervisor: Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, MLitt Student name: Mikael Johani Student #: B6761CLQ Outline: – both Gie (2006) and Laskar Pelangi (2008) are about products of private (high)school systems, the former a student of Canisius College (CC), an elite Catholic school in JakartaContinue reading “Laskar Pelangi Orba – a film studies thesis proposal at UvA, autumn ’09”
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sastra kesaksian atau romantika semata?
esei damhuri muhammad di kompas minggu (2/8/09), yang berjudul ‘romantika pasca-enam lima’, meminjam istilah pengarangnya sendiri adalah tulisan yang tidak ‘akan berdiri sebagai peristiwa yang mandiri’. kita perlu memperhitungkan ‘fakta-fakta’ di luar ‘esei’ ini. membaca esei ini saya jadi sadar, damhuri memang hidup di masa ‘pasca-65’ tapi mungkin bukan tahun 2009. begitu takutnya dia denganContinue reading “sastra kesaksian atau romantika semata?”
Tante Sophie
around the same time i decided to publish The Book, i bought a new vespa too. and by ‘bought a new vespa’ i meant buying a vespa that is new. 2007 issue. but the newness is not the point. what is the point. off all this shit. the shit is the relationship i had withContinue reading “Tante Sophie”
kritisisme anyar
dialog sing asale soko blog favoritku iki (tulisan nang ngisor iki luwih iso dinikmati nang kono): anggoro gunawan: ing basa jawa, tembung kriya (kata kerja) iku ora kaya basa inggris sing nduwèni wektu. tembung turu, mbok saiki, wingi, sesuk, utawa kapan waè tetep “turu.” beda karo sleep, slept, sleep. wong jawa mataraman sing akrab karoContinue reading “kritisisme anyar”
let’s judge a book by its cover
David=Saut’s Death=Apotheosis of Marat=Saut By 1793=2009, the violence of the [boemipoetra] Revolution dramatically increased until the beheadings at the Place de la Concorde=Salihara became a constant, leading a certain Dr. Joseph Guillotine=Saut Situmorang [Saut henceforth] to invent a machine that would improve the efficiency of the ax and block=Saut and therefore make executions more humane.Continue reading “let’s judge a book by its cover”
L=A+N-G+UxA:G=E
when it rains it’s the same everywhere. the loud bullets of raindrops on my shoulder as i get out of the centre culturel : the mango tree nods its wide leaves and lets the rain water bend its back like a swimmer on his starting block, then fall, to the steaming earth. the earth, you,Continue reading “L=A+N-G+UxA:G=E”
mata bukan ilalang*
Di Matamu Yang Ilalang oleh ghe Bad news first, nggak apa-apa, karena saya kira akhirnya puisi ini cukup kuat untuk menerima all kinds of news. Mungkin ada empat, pertama kata ilalang itu, yang sudah terlalu sering kita dengar di segala sesuatu yang ‘puitis’, dari D. Zawawi Imron’s ‘Bulan Tertusuk [I]lalang’ sampai nama komunitas yang penyairnya banyakContinue reading “mata bukan ilalang*”
depressed diaspora of the world unite!*
In the Cold November Rain The Bus Driver’s Wife Five Minutes Oleh FrenZy Not only are these stories written in English, they’re set outside Indonesia, the first in London, then Brisbane, and Melbourne. Gets rid of one problem: something that sometimes Laksmi Pamuntjak (say) struggles with in her English poems/short-stories. Like I’ve written and pointedContinue reading “depressed diaspora of the world unite!*”
it’s a read-off!
i’m reading several books at once. i digress a lot when i talk to people, when i write, so why not when i read? it’s not like i haven’t been doing it all my life anyway. but i met jj for lunch at tim and he told me he’s writing 18 books all at onceContinue reading “it’s a read-off!”
More honesty you don’t need/more of me repeating myself repeating myself myself myself
«And one night I woke up in room A007 and went straight to my desk (so fast I almost went at it), opened a notebook my mom had left me on her last visit when she threw a full good box of Honey Crunch cereal down the sink, one of the many drug companies’ giftsContinue reading “More honesty you don’t need/more of me repeating myself repeating myself myself myself”
Divagyrations 