The Polyphony
Why is it not the language or the music, but our home food that makes us feel homesick? Let’s follow in Puspa’s footsteps to explore her perspectives on her country’s cuisine—Indonesia—as well as its strong nostalgia within the ‘taste of home’.
People often see social media as an influencer on our personal life, but gradually, it then became a catalyst for the change in our daily civic engagement, the dynamics of urban landscape, and even further restoration of city planning. Come with Vien to find out what’s so special about the SNS we use everyday?
“Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment” talks about the abandoned people in Vita, Brazil and how the abandonment affected their “selves”. This book focuses on Catarina, an abandoned woman in Vita, and her “dictionary” from which her “voice”, which once lost its legitimacy, could be heard once more.
By Forrest Maynock The life of a college student is one of a constant lack of sleep and proper meals. Thankfully, Japan has a wide selection of cheap and accessible beef bowl (chain) restaurants. Perhaps the most convenient aspect of these sorts of restaurants is that they are open 24 hours a day all week […]
By Forrest Maynock American culture exists in a time of an unprecedented abuse of nostalgia. From the movies we watch to the food we eat, nostalgia dominates. I grew up in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Nostalgia was present at that time, but it was more of a longing that the older people around […]
By Nanda Illahi When talking about the movie that shook the world in 2019, various works will come to mind, but we definitely can’t forget to mention Parasite (2019). This Bong Joon-ho masterpiece has been creating history since day one. Parasite (2019) is the first South Korean film to win Palme d’Or and the Golden […]
The Polyphony