Author: Hayu Hamemayu

  • From Illegal Graffiti to Legal Mural: a Bias in Today’s Cultural Jamming

    Nowadays, the concept of cultural jamming is often criticised because it has been losing its original spirit: “to challenge the status quo and to foster the ideals of the Englightment” (Cammaerts, 2007, p. 88). According to Cammaerts (ibid), today’s cultural jamming is nothing more than just an entertainment as well as political or marketing strategy.… →

  • On Western Media Coverage: How Media Orientalise Terrorism

    The orientalism concept is often criticized for its stigmatised stereotype and its hegemonic colonial history. As Said believes, “the relationship between orient and occident is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degree of a complex hegemony” (1978, p. 5). Unfortunately, instead of helping people to gain “richer truths about the world around us”… →

  • Kosakata Asmara

    Sudah lupakah kamu? Pada kosakata asmara yang mesra kita umbar di waktu-waktu dulu? Sudah lupakah kita? Pada peribahasa cinta yang menghiasi hari-hari kita nyaris tanpa jeda? Mengapa kini tak lagi ada kata bersalut gula? Kalimat berbalut rayuan gombal? Atau frase penuh bisikan rindu? Barangkali kita hanya kehabisan diksi Atau mungkin kata-kata tak diperlukan lagi Mungkin… →

  • The Alphabetical Dreams

    What do I do to make all my dreams come true? I grab a pen and I start with an A I think about B and wonder what happen with C and D Then I’ll finish everything with a Z … What do I do to make all my dreams come true? I grab a… →

  • Mukiyo in Action

    Mungkin puisi-puisi berikut bisa menjelaskan mengapa Tulkijem begitu terperdaya oleh Mukiyo 🙂 “Bandung sudah lewat, Tapi aku bawa sesuatu, Untuk hati yang selalu tertambat, Untuk cinta yang kian lekat, Untuk kekasihku: Hayu” (ZH, 2006) — “Barangkali aku bukan lelaki sempurnamu, Bisa jadi aku juga bukan kekasih harapanmu, Tapi satu yang pasti, Aku selalu mencintamu, Hayu.… →