A Lacanian Reflection on the Twisted Life There’s a quote from a famous author, Paulo Coelho, which goes, “If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they still want more”. Many of us are already familiar with humans’ nature that never satisfied. Yet, many of…

Comparative Reflection on Ethics — If I’m not mistaken, it has been several weeks since my Twitter timeline was filled with tweets talking about a young couple’s wife who regularly makes lunches for her husband. …

Pandangan post-strukturalisme lahir sebagai suatu kritik yang mensubversi kecenderungan dalam pemaknaan serta pembacaan atas dunia yang terkesan stagnan pada titik tertentu. Post-strukturalisme menganggap bahwa pemaknaan serta pembacaan tsb harus terus berjalan dan berkembang, maka dalam kata lain proses pemaknaan serta pembacaan tersebut tidak pernah selesai. Proses pemaknaan yang dimaksudkan oleh…

Identity Crisis, Consumerism, and Our Perception of Reality by: Defta Ananta We already live in a post-modern society; Baudrillard said and conceptualized it on his book Simulacra and Simulacrum. There’s one claim that made Baudrillard famous for his works; ‘we lived in a simulated society’, the exact purpose of our…

“From the beginning of the 20th century until now, the relationship between music and humans is increasingly entering the deepest joints of our lives, as if humans are unable to escape the need for the presence of music to free and overcome the confinement of the soul from the hustle…