Tag: society
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Raw Passage: The Open Office
The open office can become a constructor of identity. It is what philosopher Michel Foucault calls ‘heterotopia’. A concept in human geography to describe places and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions. Places and spaces that possess no authority or domination over others. Places and spaces that offer you an important philosophy, it proposes true…
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Travel Journal: Early Days in Sukasaba
14th October 2013 10:25PM (Indonesian Time) Sukasaba, Indonesia Tonight is the night I start a travel journal. I’ve been contemplating this for a while now especially since I’ve been in Indonesia for the last 2 weeks or so. I can’t point to the sole reason why I’m starting one. However, one of the reasons would…
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The Stranger
He is an undeserving prisoner of a very broken reality. The stranger cannot accept any standard answers of why they are the way they are. He sees hypocrisy and sentimentality everywhere and cannot overlook it. The stranger is an individual who cannot accept the explanations that are normally given to him to explain about the workplace, educational system,…
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Raw Passage: Our Grief
Who knows how long I have been awake now. My mental aches are showing. Since the new year, I have been in grief. I dare not say the reasons. I may be misunderstood in ways, unimaginable. At first, it felt like a small disaster. After a while, it grew into a whirlwind of thoughts and…
The Reasonable Writer by Faizul H. Ibrahim 