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  • Sebuah Catatan Siswa ‘Pembangunan’

    Kunjungan belajar ke Uganda beberapa waktu lalu membuat saya kembali berpikir tentang proses produksi pengetahuan dalam studi pembangunan. Keberuntungan (atau mungkin kemewahan) sebagai siswa untuk dapat berkunjung ke Uganda tidak dapat serta merta saya ambil sisi positifnya. Sebagai individu yang menghabiskan sebagian besar proses belajar di Indonesia, saya terus membandingkan proses produksi pengetahuan selama di… Read more

  • Should We Use Evidence Only?

    Disclaimer: This is not a formal paper of such yet all references are hyperlinked with the resource in case you want to dig deeper. Evidence-based policy making (EBPM). Ah, this buzzword has its own perks, hasn’t it? Reminding ourselves that policy decision used to be lack of data and such. “We should use sufficient data… Read more

  • Gender and Post-Human?

    I’ve read a study where some participants were shown two videos of the robot: one is a lady-like robot (Repliee) and the other one is a robot in the wheel (Robovie). The result, as expected, many of them found that Repliee has the more positive response due to its human like and gender perception of female… Read more

  • Masa Depan Penuh Harapan

    Judul buku: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Penulis: Peter Frase Penerbit: Verso Tahun penerbitan: 2016 Jumlah halaman: 122 Berbincang soal masa depan tentu bukan persoalan yang mudah. Kompleksitas sejarah maupun kerumitan variabel dalam sistem yang sedang berjalan membuat kita sering kali menghindari wacana-wacana spekulatif. Namun maraknya fiksi ilmiah yang berada pada karakter futuristik sebenarnya adalah… Read more

  • Imagination to Survive?

    What do we know really about survival? Let’s start briefly with the human journey as a species. It is strictly clear that we are here because our primitive ancestors survived. Historians, anthropologists, and biologists had been a really long debate on this until they reached a point that Homo Sapiens finally ‘won’ over Homo Neanderthals… Read more

  • Increasing Ignorance?

    The winter is coming and I, decided to write questions. So to start, I have a question on the idea of ignorance. Yes, it means lack of knowledge; and again, yes, it has a negative sense. We use the word ‘ignorance’ in conversation and refer it as reluctance to know something. We like to say, ‘Ignorance… Read more