Dinamika kosa-kata dalam bahasa di Indonesia ramai oleh ‘Omon-omon’. Istilah yang mencuat di ajang Debat Pilpres 2024 dari Presiden Prabowo Subianto. Kata ini yang sebenarnya terpeleset dari niat mengucap Omong – omong, menjadi ‘Omon – omon’ ketika membalas argumen lawan debatnya, Anies Baswedan. Tanpa diprediksi, insiden ini kemudian menjadi viral dan menambah meriahnya perbendaharaan kata…
To be called a lover is to be an object of loving. A being with devotion and craving, enraptured in making mental monologues about what have been, and what should have not. Roland Barthes revealed what it means to stand as a lover. An extreme solitude, he said. Owned or disowned, he dwells in that…
Dad’s Carnegie In 2009 I suffered from depression for months. Some events triggered it, so it wasn’t clinical, but rather an on-set. My parents whom I lived with didn’t know what it was; I was avoiding people, feeling full all the time at the dining table, just being in shambles from morning till after sunset….
Homo Quarens. That’s what humans have turned into, the human of inquiring. After centuries, and centuries from just a simple homo sapiens (the wise), homo faber (the working human), and more on the list we’ve created. We evolved into a species full of questions and anxiousness. Nothing seems right and we soon falter from anxiety,…
When Iris Marion Young and I Crossed Paths We might always be sensing that homemaking is at the hands of a woman. Coming home to aplace means coming home to mostly things women have touched. Iris Marion Young in heressay narrates her analysis philosophically on this matter. How a place to live, gets called ahome,…
Fair Play : A movie on woman’s unflinching thrive to move forward in men’s universe. Draped in a skin-colored gown, and swayed red hair, Emily played by Phoebe Dynevor struck as a gorgeous girl next door. She effortlessly captivated so many men at the party. But only one man is lucky to have her as his…
If even misery loves company, what does it say about our other feelings? What sort of companion can wipe away the tears of our loneliness? This article examines the remedy to loneliness, with the hope of curing it from time to time. Hawkley and Cacioppo defined loneliness as : a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception…
There is something immaculately holy and safe about taking part in a religious society. What we rarely understand is that there is an enormous iceberg of cognitive dissonance lying beneath it. A paradox between what was considered deeds and what was judged as sin. The covert battle to be seen as sacred as can be…
Losing a loved one without knowing what happened to them is a never-ending agony—a breed of anger, hysteria, and helplessness all in one gulp of tragedy. On the edge between existing and non-existing, the people who lost their families can never live properly. Here are four people in different parts of the world and a…
