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Social Criticism of Corruption Eradication in Indonesia Reflected in Gandrik's \Para Pensiunan 2049\ (The Retirees 2049)
This study investigates the complexities of \"Para Pensiunan 2049\" (The Retirees 2049), a theatrical work by Agus Noor and Susilo Nugroho, first performed in 2019. Through a qualitative descriptive approach and an extensive literature review, this study scrutinizes the play's profound social criticism targeting corruption, collusion, and nepotism. Primary data is drawn from a video recording of the performance by Teater Gandrik, supported by insights from literary journals, reviews, e-books, and online sources. Central to this study is exploring the play's satirical elements, which are potent tools for exposing and condemning the widespread corruption within society. The play dramatizes the lasting consequences of unethical conduct by withholding certificates of good behavior from corrupt individuals posthumously. The study uncovers how \"Para Pensiunan 2049\" critiques the alarming decay of social values due to corruption and highlights the urgency for reform and ethical accountability. The study also incorporates the framework of epic theater, as conceptualized by Bertolt Brecht, to further dissect the play's mechanisms. Epic theater's techniques are evident in the play's structure, which entertains and prompts the audience to critically engage with the societal issues presented. By unraveling these layers of satires and epic theater techniques, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the play's call for social reform, aiming to foster a collective consciousness toward combating corruption, collusion, and nepotism.
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Satire, racist humour and the power of (un)laughter
Online racist discourse, in contrast to offline varieties, is often assumed to be emotionally unrestrained due to the anonymity of online settings. Taking an affective–discursive practice approach, this study challenges that assumption by analysing online racist satire and other forms of racist humour targeting European Union (EU)-migrants begging for money, as well as responses evoked by such humorous attempts, appearing in two discussion threads on the Swedish website Flashback. A discourse analysis is conducted, drawing on insights from theories of satirical discursive practice, critical approaches to humour and the sociology of emotions. The results show that online racism may be articulated in subtle and restrained as well as more explicit ways through different humorous techniques. Furthermore, laughing and unlaughing responses to satire and other forms of humour reveal an online racist affective–discursive order in the making, which demands clarity in articulating racist messages. This points to online racism’s restrained nature.
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The architect as worker : immaterial labor, the creative class, and the politics of design
\"Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural \"practice\" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) combine to characterize the work performed in the architectural office. Nor has there been a deeper evaluation of the unspoken and historically-determined myths that assign cultural, symbolic, and economic value to architectural labor. The Architect as Worker presents a range of essays exploring the issues central to architectural labor. These include questions about the nature of design work; immaterial and creative labor and how it gets categorized, spatialized, and monetized within architecture; the connection between parametrics and BIM and labor; theories of architectural work; architectural design as a cultural and economic condition; entrepreneurialism; and the possibility of ethical and rewarding architectural practice. The book is a call-to-arms, and its ultimate goal is to change the profession. It will strike a chord with architects, who will recognize the struggle of their profession; with students trying to understand the connections between work, value, and creative pleasure; and with academics and cultural theorists seeking to understand what grounds the discipline\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The readers of Novyi Mir : coming to terms with the Stalinist past
In the \"Thaw\" following Stalin's death, probing conversations about the nation's violent past took place in the literary journal Novyi mir (New World). Readers' letters reveal that discussion of the Terror was central to intellectual and political life during the USSR's last decades. Denis Kozlov shows how minds change, even in a closed society.
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The Witch of Edmonton
The witchcraft plot in The Witch of Edmonton is decidedly secondary. The historical context helps us understand it: while belief in witchcraft was near universal, uncertainty always hovered over individual cases. The social criticism articulated by the witch in the play, with its attack on the abuse of the poor (especially poor women) by their neighbours is central to the impact of the play. If those in power are held accountable, the responsibilities of the patriarchs who failed Frank Thorney — his father and master — are also in question. The witch calls into question all those given authority in society.
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Spatial resistance : literary and digital challenges to neoliberalism
\"This book uses literary analysis and digital humanities to show how social justice can be enacted in everyday actions through changing the way we think about lived spaces. As corporate and state powers increase, it is necessary to examine ways to democratize space based on the shared values of equality, liberty, and solidarity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Having Your Cake: Caricaturing the Business Organization in 20th-century and Contemporary American Art and Poetry
We focus here on the idea of business as a trope and as a reality that can be placed in a rhetorical position in art (mostly visual art and poetry) in the 20th century. Many artists, from Henri Matisse to Marc Rothko, have turned their heads away from the business organization, although it is a cornerstone of society in the modern capitalist era; conversations with the business world have indeed been a taboo for artists of the avant-garde particularly, which explains why some artists have been taking the contrarian position of making business part of their subject. Business is the utilitarian funneling of resources into standardized and marketed output, with its hated by-products including the organization man, and the daily grind. For many, big business is the source of those greatest of today’s problems: irreversible pollution and climate change. Part of being a progressive-spirit modernist is to open up the form to new fields of experience. In 1919, Marianne Moore, in a Duchampian gesture, broached the inclusion of utilitarian language into poetry. After that other poets, novelists, and especially visual artists have turned their gaze and their rhetoric towards what might be called the business blind spot in art, to expand art’s demesne dialectically, to engage in subtle social criticism, to reach behind business to get to society or, fascinatingly, in the cases of Andy Warhol, and later Jeff Koons, to create new ambiguities that play on contemporary anxieties, revealing hidden vulnerabilities in modern societies, to those that can see and feel them.
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