It is relatively easy to produce a decent rap piece. Rap also has long history as political culture. Whether people want feminist development or action against brutal capitalism—rap there. Critical theory and philosophy have always been part of rap. In the 1990s MC Solaar quoted Umberto Eco Jacques Derrida. Today, Princess Nokia rhymes on bell hooks. No other genre popular music can come up wit...

What is deconstruction? Nothing, of course. (Derrida, 1991, p. 275) . . . deconstruction doesn’t consist in a set of theorems, axioms, tools, rules, techniques, methods . . . there is no deconstruction, deconstruction has no specific object . . . (Derrida, 1996, p. 218) . . . deconstruction is neither an analysis nor a critique. . . . I would say the same about method. Deconstruction is not a m...

Suasana kelas formal dengan aturan desain baku, tidak berarti menjadi sekolah ramah anak. Ruang dan suasana pembelajaran yang bebas dari dogma/langgam arsitektur tertentu, bisa membantu anak untuk berpikir di luar kotak. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengkaji Arsitektur Sekolah Anak Usia Dini Tomoe Gakuen Jepang APAP Open School Korea, teori Jacques Derrida dalam hal makna, fungsi, bentuk. manfa...

Even in the most naïve sense, without qualification, the term sign imposes great difficulties. The word designates any thing, whether gesture, mark, token, symbol or even natural event, that expresses, indicates or refers to a meaning or to something else. Yet even that most general and innocent statement offers at best a futile answer, as if to a question that already presupposes it: “what doe...

In his essay “In Good Faith” (1990), Salman Rushdie discusses the reactions his novel, The Satanic Verses (1988; “SV”) has evoked around the world. According to Rushdie, his novel has been treated as “a work of bad history, as an anti-religious pamphlet, as the product of an international capitalistJewish conspiracy, as an act of murder,” everything but literature, a work of fiction. Rushdie is...

A partir das reflexões de teóricos como Jean-Luc Nancy, Jaques Derrida, Walter Mignolo, Enrique Dussel, Jacques Rancière e Georges Didi-Huberman, o presente texto analisa imagens da jornalista Elaine Borges veiculadas na imprensa regional Santa Catarina, num contexto em que a ditadura militar investia obras infraestrutura região amazônica. Com auxílio do Instituto Nacional Colonização Reforma A...