Richard Oh

The above sentence proves that for every sentence x that is true, it’s predicated to the interpretation (I) in the language of the structure A. Every sentence in this sense requires a qualifying sentence to confirm the initial premise: I’m happy. This basically tells us that we never really get to the truth of things. [...]

We use the term society lightly. We say we belong to a society, as if society is an organization that has a clear hierarchy. We say ‘we’ as a body of individuals constitutes ‘the’ society. As if ‘we’ as such can be circumscribed into one description. Society is the abstract term for the collection of [...]

What if you were subject to the pullulation of noise all your life, would you still be annoyed, not to mention deranged, by it? Let’s push this idea a bit further, what if by noise we mean not just of the audible kind, but a whole raft of sense-assaulting ‘noises’ in a daily existence? The [...]

There’s no such thing as ‘was’ –only is.  If  ‘was’ existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. So says William Faulkner. Years later, Alain Badiou, the French thinker, will make this statement, ‘History does not exist… There are only disparate presents whose radiance is measured by their power to unfold a past worthy of [...]

Menuju ke sebuah masyarakat baru, kita perlu telisik ulang pengertian tentang pluralisme yang sering dikumandangkan oleh para pundit politik dan pemikir idealis. Kita paham terkandung dalam teriak-teriakan mereka adalah sebuah niat yang baik, yaitu sebuah masyarakat kemajemukan yang demokratis dgn toleransi tinggi terhadap perbedaan dan keadilan untuk semua. Tetapi, begitu seringnya istilah-istilah seperti demokrasi, pluralisme, [...]