Category: Stories from Australia

  • 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”… →

  • 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… →

  • The Perth Royal Show: Fun for All, All for Fun

    “Fremantle passengers, platform 7. Fremantle passengers, platform 7,” said the Transperth officer via intercom in Perth Train Station on Saturday, October 1. Hundreds of people then gathered near the platform 7, ready to catch the train. The Fremantle line was never that crowded. Those people were heading to the opening of the Perth Royal Show… →

  • Circle Route

    Cinta itu kadang seperti circle route. Seringkali kita harus menempuh jalan panjang dan berliku, hanya untuk kembali ke tempat yang sudah kita tahu sebelumnya. Seseorang yang saya kenal dengan baik, harus menempuh perjalanan hingga Kalimantan. Menjalani pengayaan batin di Bandung dan Surabaya, hanya untuk pulang ke Jogja, lalu menikahi perempuan yang pernah dilihatnya sekilas, bertahun-tahun… →