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Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora
Published by Universitas Sanata Dharma
ISSN : 14126931     EISSN : 25492225     DOI : https://doi.org/10.24071/ret
Core Subject : Humanities, Education, Art, Social,
Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora was founded in 2001 with the aim of seeking a new scientific ethos in the humanities with an interdisciplinary, political, and textual spirit. It was, and still remains, the aspiration of Retorik to foster humanities research with a scientific ethos capable of responding to the needs of the Indonesian society that continues to strive to become more democratic, just, and pluralistic in the aftermath of long authoritarian rule, under social, economic, and political conditions still characterized by inequality. In its interdisciplinary spirit, Retorik has drawn insights from an array of disciplines, most notably, political economy, language (including semiotics), and psychoanalysis, to that end. As various managerial requirements stifle the passion for academic and intellectual life, while simultaneously in the broader Indonesian society, the ideals of Reformation are frustrated by political and economic oligarchy that continues to exist with impunity, Retorik affirms the need to defend a scientific ethos at present, for the future. In light of its aims, Retorik promotes original research that makes advances in the following areas: 1. Historically-informed studies that engage with the conditions, contexts, and relations of power within which the humanities were born, and with which the humanities are entwined. 2. Dialogues with various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. 3. Interdisciplinary research pertaining to critical pedagogy, religious and cultural studies, art studies, and new social movements. 4. Experimentation with new forms of knowledge that foster the formation of a more democratic, just, and plural society. 5. Studies that are sensitive to the vital role of both technology and art in contemporary society and seek to understand the ways in which art, technology, and economy together contribute to the formation of contemporary cultures and societies.
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Gairah Tabu: Mengimajinasikan Kembali Indonesia Melalui Pornografi Smith, Malcolm Le
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 1 (2025): "Menemukan Kembali Resonansi": Peringatan 25 Tahun Kajian Budaya di Sanata Dhar
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i1.11986

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This essay draws a parallel between the Indonesian Romance industry and Pornography industry; and Indonesian “legacy” media (print, radio and television news) and social media. In the classic romance narrative, true love can only be found when the heteronormative moral order has been restored. In pornography, there are always two players—the voyeur and the narcissist, who are locked in a feedback loop of transgression and pleasure. The essay charts how pornography played an important role in the development of internet technologies, not only through the injection of capital into innovation, but also in the way users subjectively engaged with these images. As human interaction and political discourse increasingly shifts online, it is timely to consider how online technologies determine those interactions.
Penjungkirbalikan: Pascakolonialitas dan Hantu-hantu Nostalgia Kusno, Timoteus Anggawan
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 1 (2025): "Menemukan Kembali Resonansi": Peringatan 25 Tahun Kajian Budaya di Sanata Dhar
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i1.12062

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This experimental essay unfolds as a journey through memory, ruins, and rituals, tracing the lingering presence of a colonial past in contemporary Indonesia. It explores the layered relationship between colonialism, postcolonial nation-building, and the enduring structures of imperial power that continue to shape cultural and political life. At its centre is a paradox: in pursuing national unity, the newly independent state often reproduced the very systems of control it aimed to dismantle. Colonial nostalgia, expressed through aesthetic revivals, architectural restoration, and performative rituals, emerges not only as a sentiment but as a structural force within collective memory. Through a weaving of critical reflection and poetic interludes, the essay invites readers to reflect on the shifting boundary between history and feeling. It lingers in what is remembered but also in what is imagined, suppressed, and restaged.
Apokalips Milik Siapa? Unfuturability dan Politik Futuritas Kolonial-Pemukim dalam Narasi Apokaliptik Barat Ardana, Stefanus Galang
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.12831

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This paper argues that reading Western settler-colonial apocalyptic narratives—including films, video games, and novels such as The Road, the Fallout series, Children of Men, and Interstellar—through the lens of unfuturability reveals their underlying political function. I distinguish between “apocalypse-as-genre,” the spectacular collapse imagined in these works, and “apocalypse-as-structure,” the slow violence already endured in places such as Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua. The analysis identifies three recurring settler-colonial tropes that work to secure the future as a racially exclusive domain: the reimagining of land as an emptied frontier, the rebirth of the hunter-hero through righteous violence, and the salvation of the future through a settler adoption fantasy. These tropes function as a form of “white property” by controlling who inherits futurity. In response, unfuturability is proposed as both an analytic and an ethic: a political refusal of the colonial future that opens space for plural, relational worlds already being built through Indigenous land stewardship, Black mutual aid, and decolonial archival practice. By using unfuturability to name and critique these narrative patterns, this paper offers a framework for reading apocalyptic culture beyond the horizons secured by settler futurity.
Menegosiasikan Kuasa Melalui Rasa: Sejarah Kuliner Sebagai Wujud Resistensi Masyarakat Lokal dalam Bayang Kolonialisme Leo, Yohanes
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.13430

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Rice has become an inseparable aspect of Indonesians, with a popular opinion that “we haven’t truly eaten, if we haven’t eaten rice.” Accompanied with a spoon and a fork, food, and how we eat have existed within a colonial construct, which doesn’t only appear in the past moment. Colonialism is produced and reproduced in social systems, education, and daily activity. Even so, that term is not merely con­structed on the normative values that reduce the community’s resistance to examining the power relationship. “It” is walking simultaneously with a resistance that puts the local knowledge in the mainstream of history—an attempt to negotiate the hegemonic cycles. The barriers between the social context and the praxis are walking “natural­ly”, making the role of each subject reciprocal. Nevertheless, the domination that appears from the Eurocentric views actually raises the local awareness against the flow in a dignified way. Through local knowledge and collective spirit, processing food becomes a local struggle to reduce the Western hegemony and revitalize the relationship between people and their connection with nature.
Transapokaliptika: “Setelah-Kiamat” Tidak Ada Kajian Budaya Siswanto, Zuhdi
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.13394

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This paper examines Cultural Studies from a historical perspective, emphasizing its role as an intellectual project that emerges from social crises and structural antagonisms. Spanning its development from the 1960s to the contemporary period (1990–2025), the paper shows that neoliberal capitalism is not merely an economic project, but one that has also permeated education, healthcare, religion, art, and everyday life, forming circuits of commodification and capital accumulation. In response to discourses on global ecological crisis, Cultural Studies is framed not as a passive academic discipline, but as an interdisciplinary practice that thrives on contradiction, understanding “apocalypse” not as a singular event but as a historical, simultaneous, and rhizomatic condition that shapes human experience in the era of globalization and platform capitalism. Introducing “transapocalyptic” as a term for a comprehensive crisis produced by neoliberalism’s penetration into all spheres of life, this paper rejects the notion of a “post-apocalypse” by positioning it as a utopia construct. Accordingly, Cultural Studies functions as a tool for reflection and critique that enables survival amid contemporary social, ecological, and symbolic crises while reminding us that the journey toward a fully emancipatory order is always “not yet”, for beyond utopia, a truly “post-apocalyptic” world does not exist.
Dunia Akademik Sebagai Sekte: Pengetahuan, Kekuasaan, dan Kekerasan dalam The Secret History oleh Donna Tartt Noor, Aisha Zahrany Putri; Budiman, Manneke
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.13395

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Amongst the themes that literary works in the genre of dark academia foreground are power and abuse. In The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt, a book that is considered to be foundational for the dark academia genre, power dynamics plays a central role. Set in a small liberal arts college in rural Vermont, the book follows an exclusive, closed group of six classics students alongside their charismatic professor as they deal with the aftermath of the murder of one of their friends and the events leading up to it. This research aims to explore how the relationships amongst the characters and knowledge, power, and abuse affect their dynamics in Donna Tartt’s novel. Through textual analysis that applies Michel Foucault’s theory of power/knowledge and Robert Jay Lifton’s thought reform theory, this study reveals how knowledge can become a tool of power to control students into blind submission, like cult members, even in an academic environment where critical thinking is encouraged. This research offers an insight on how Tartt’s portrayal serves as a commentary on the danger of unchecked power and conformity within academic institutions.
Filsafat Nusantara Pascakiamat Mahaswa, Rangga Kala; Prayuda, Gloria Bayu Nusa
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.13429

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The development of Nusantara Philosophy (Filsafat Nusantara) is inextricably linked to the politics of knowledge (philosophy) in Indonesia. Hitherto, Nusantara Philosophy has remained anchored in historical romanticism concerning the trajectory of philosophical thought in Indonesia. On the other hand, the paucity of futurist philosophical models or end-of-world philosophical approaches (apocalypse/post-apocalypse) in Indonesia poses a distinct challenge to the advancement of Nusantara Philosophy, particularly when addressing its own future. At this juncture, Nusantara Philosophy remains incomplete with itself, ensnared in issues of glorification, romanticism, uncertainty, and ambiguity surrounding its disparate, undirected concepts. Accordingly, this article illuminates several problems within Nusantara Philosophy through the lenses of archipelagic philosophical studies and speculative realism, to further elucidate the philosophical projections of Nusantara Philosophy when interrogating the Apocalypse. Certain analyses of Nusantara Philosophy merely catalog local knowledge, employing an approach inseparable from the cosmological-archipelagic model, wherein seas, mountains, and island expanses are envisioned as metaphysical agents serving as mediating mediums. Similarly, Nusantara Philosophy frequently generates diverse forms of speculative ethics that invariably compel consideration of specific moral values and cultural norms. Rather than seeking to transcend the universal claims of Western philosophy regarding apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic concepts, Nusantara Philosophy tacitly harbors a Ratu Adil (Just King) perspective to explicate the hyperobject of the end times.
Apakah Antroposen Saja Sudah Cukup?: Telaah Kritis atas Gagasan Keadilan Multispesies Donna Haraway Nurcahyo, Muhammad Fahmi
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.12872

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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) by Donna Haraway proposes a new way of thinking to deal with the planetary crisis caused by ecological destruction, climate change and species extinction. Haraway rejects the term anthropocene, a geological era in which human activity is the dominant force changing the earth, and proposes an alternative concept: chthulucene—an era that emphasizes the interconnectedness, symbiosis and tentacularity of beings, both human and non-human. Through the idea of “staying with the trouble”, Haraway calls for not seeking an escape from the crisis, but rather living in its complexity and building a new way of life. The concept of making kin is central to her thinking: establishing kinship across species as a form of ethics and care for the wounded earth. With a multidisciplinary and imaginative approach, this book makes a unique contribution to the discourse of ecology and posthumanism. Haraway invites us to imagine an alternative future that is more just for all beings, not with total solutions, but through relationships and shared responsibility.
Bukan Korban, tetapi Rizom: Koreografi Ketahanan Tubuh Migran di Reruntuhan Kapitalisme Taiwan Listyorini, Anastasia Melati
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.13439

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This article challenges dominant narratives that position Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan as passive victims of global capitalism. Drawing on a three-year performative ethnography (2022–2024) combined with critical digital content analysis, the study develops the concept of choreographies of resilience to examine how migrant bodies claim space, time, and meaning under highly restrictive living conditions. The analysis focuses on two interrelated everyday practices: the trans­formation of cramped dormitory rooms into virtual stages, and the phenomenon of sholawat dance as an expression of kinesthetic piety. By framing Taiwan as a land­scape of “capitalist ruins” (Anna Tsing), the study demonstrates that these practices enact forms of agency that are not necessarily resistive, but instead operate through the creative inhabitation of norms (Saba Mahmood) and bodily performativity (Ju­dith Butler). The findings show that digital choreographic practices function both as survival tactics (Michel de Certeau) and as a politics of visibility. Platforms such as TikTok operate as ambivalent contact zones (Mary Louise Pratt): while embedded within the logics of platform capitalism (Nick Srnicek), they nevertheless enable the formation of collective bodily archives, affective networks, and alternative cultural spaces. The study argues that migrant bodily resilience is contextual, embodied, and rooted in everyday practice.
Cultural Studies after the End of the World?: Introducing Vol. 13 No. 2 Kim, Min Seong
Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Cultural Studies After the End of the World
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ret.v13i2.14229

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The present issue of Retorik was envisioned as the second installment of the special volume celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University. While Vol. 13, No. 1—featuring a guest editorial by one of the founders of the Program, Dr. Stanislaus Sunardi—comprises six articles from alumni of the Program who were invited to contribute, several articles included in this issue, Vol. 13, No. 2, are responses to an open call for papers circulated in April 2025. The theme of the CfP was: “Cultural Studies after the End of the World,” or, in the Indonesian version, “Kajian Budaya Setelah Kiamat.” Of course, what is meant by “the end of the world”—deliberately rendered with theological undertones in the Indonesian version, i.e., as “kiamat” (apocalypse) rather than the more neutral “akhir dunia”—merits some clarification.

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