Nik Setiadarma

crumbles of time

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  • Impurity

    Impurity

    Thanks to Day, Mirna, Gita, and Bella for watching and discussing this movie with me. Cleaners (2019), directed by Glenn Barit, tells some slices of everyday life among Filipino high-schoolers in early 2000s. Weaving four separate yet connected mini-stories, the movie offers bitter-sweet, nostalgic youth of friendship and love, with sprinkles of politics, that allows… Read more

  • Fragments Incarnate

    Fragments Incarnate

    Pedro Páramo is a thundering grandeur. Non-linear narrative; yes, please. Population of characters who are conscious of their alienation; served. Latin-American literature through its history knows what to do with estrangement. (The last novel I read was Macedonio Fernández’s The Museum of Eterna’s Novel and I still remember the imaginary fireworks surrounding myself as I… Read more

  • under the sky, always new names

    under the sky, always new names

    Name changing; I constantly do that. I change the way I call myself. I changed my social media’s account names (from @/eunikeglr to @/quotidianemot to @/niksetiadarma to @/tukangmikwir). I changed my blog’s name and title (used to be a cringe “happyloner”); and by this second, I want to throw the name of this blog “quotidian… Read more

  • dari meja pembaca

    dari meja pembaca

    Sudah cukup lama saya menanggalkan kepercayaan bahwa membaca hanyalah untuk bersenang-senang. Apapun yang sedang saya lakukan sekarang adalah soal berusaha menjadi konsisten, mempertahankan kedisplinan sebagai kerja politik, terus menemui penulis dan buku dari berbagai tempat, bercakap-cakap dengan mereka melalui ruang imajiner, sekaligus berkonfrontasi dengan bahasa dan tulisan. Ada banyak hal di luar buku, bahasa, dan… Read more

  • phase three; keep trying history

    phase three; keep trying history

    for they who write history for they who make history for all of us,who are and will be history memory I sat with Mbak Anna. It was in Yogya, last year. I visited some good people there as I tried to find a place of collaboration where I can share my question. I always respect… Read more

  • no, for a body that does not

    no, for a body that does not

    “What Human Emotion Am I? You’re Anger.” A chuckle. Sianne Ngai once wrote a question: “Is there an ‘adequate’ or ‘sufficient’ response to racist expression?” The “I” was shrugging. A performance of idk-yet-somehow-do-know. This is the “I” who feel without rather than within. The “I” asked itself why history is impossible to be written without… Read more