PoP's textual historian Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan explores the aesthetic uses of time in Javanese historical traditions. Universal history has no theoretical armature. Its method is additive; it musters a mass of data to fill the homogeneous, empty time. Walter Benjamin, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ Memorising dates is one of the worst things about … Continue reading The Art of Dating in Javanese History
Month: November 2016
Endangered Cuisines: Yogyakarta’s Gudeg
Food & travel writer Sheridan Rogers joins PoP this week to explore Yogyakarta's traditional food gudeg .