STRATEGI KRITIK CERPEN “TELINGA” TERHADAP ORBA: MENINJAU STRUKTUR PRODUKSI DAN IDEOLOGI TEKS

ABSTRAK: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan strategi kritik cerpen “Telinga” karya Seno Gumira Ajidarma (SGA) terhadap rezim Orde Baru (Orba) Indonesia. Hal tersebut akan dijelaskan dengan cara meninjau struktur produksi dan ideologi teks cerpen “Telinga” karya SGA. Untuk menjelaskannya, penelitian ini menggunakan teori kritik sastra materialistis Terry Eagleton. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah metode dialektika. Metode ini memungkinkan peneliti untuk menjelaskan ideologi teks sebagai produk pengolahan estetik atas struktur produksi pada masa Orba. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebagai berikut. Pertama, cerpen “Telinga” sebagai kritik hadir dengan cara menerobos struktur produksi pada masa Orba yang selalu diatur oleh pemerintah. Struktur produksi pada masa Orba yang berkaitan dengan corak produksi umum didominasi oleh pemerintah. Segala bentuk produksi diatur sehingga muncul ideologi umum represif yang berada dalam naungan ideologi Pancasila. Hal tersebut memengaruhi corak produksi sastra yang dituntut untuk pro-pemerintah. Namun, ideologi kepengarangan SGA justru hadir sebagai bentuk resistensi kepada pemerintah sehingga ideologi estetik dalam cerpen “Telinga” berbentuk kontradiksi dengan ideologi umum pada masa Orba. Kedua, kritik cerpen “Telinga” diartikulasikan dengan ideologi teks yang hadir melalui simbol-simbol. Dalam manifestasinya, cerpen “Telinga” berhasil mengkritik Orba dengan cara menyampaikan fakta realitas tanpa harus digugat oleh pemerintah. Kritik tersebut pada gilirannya juga memanfaatkan narasi satire. Dengan demikian, cerpen “Telinga” sebagai kritik dinaturalisasikan melalui ruang estetik untuk mengungkap fakta yang dibungkam pada masa Orba.KATA KUNCI: Struktur produksi; estetik; ideologi teks; Orde Baru (Orba); Terry Eagleton “TELINGA” SHORT STORY CRITICISM STRATEGY TOWARDS THE ORBA: REVIEWING PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND IDEOLOGY OF THE TEXT ABSTRACT: This research aims to explain the strategy of “Telinga” short story by Seno Gumira Ajidarma (SGA) towards the Indonesian New Order (Orba) regime. It will be explained by reviewing the production structure and ideology of the text of “Telinga” short story by SGA. This research uses Terry Eagleton’s literature’s materialistic criticism theory. The method used in this research is the dialectical method. This method allows the researcher to explain the ideology of the text as a product of aesthetic processing of the production structure during the Orba era. The results showed the following. First, “Telinga” short story as a criticism comes by breaking through the production structure during the Orba era which was always regulated by the government. The production structure during the Orba era related to the general mode of production was dominated by the government. All forms of production are regulated in order that a repressive general ideology emerges under the auspices of the Pancasila ideology. This affected the literary mode of production which was demanded to support the government. However, the SGA’s authorship ideology actually exists as a form of resistance againts the government in order that the aesthetic ideology in “Telinga” short story contradicts the general ideology during the Orba era. Second, “Telinga” short story criticism is articulated with the ideology of the text which is present through symbols. In its manifestation, “Telinga” short story successfully criticizes the Orba regime by delivering reality-based fact without any accusation by government. The critic on its turn also applies satire narracy. Therefore, “Telinga” short story as criticism naturalized through an aesthetic space to reveal silenced fact during the Orba era.KEYWORDS: Production structure; aesthetic; ideology of the text; New Order (Orba); Terry Eagleton

The Critical-Linguistic Critique of the Aesthetic Ideology in the Late Writing of Paul de Man

The focus of this essay is Paul de Man's provocative antipathy towards the category of the aesthetic in his late writings on philosophical aesthetics. I introduce de Man's critique of what he terms aesthetic ideology – a form of ideological communication – which he considers manifest in the aesthetics of Schiller in particular but also in more scrupulously critical philosophers. I begin the essay with Benjamin's well known observation that twentieth century fascisms aestheticized political practice as part of a defence of existing property relations. I introduce de Man's critique of aesthetic ideology as a way of developing or elaborating on what are relatively sketchy comments on the relationship aesthetics and politics in Benjamin's earlier essay.

KRITIK MATERIALISTIK TEKS SASTRA MAJALAH PANDJI POESTAKA (1943--1945)

<p>ABSTRAK<br /> <br />Penelitian ini bertujuan memaparkan struktur ideologi Teks Sastra dalam Majalah Pandji Poestaka pada masa<br />pendudukan Jepang di Indonesia (1943-1945). Pendekatan teori yang digunakan adalah materialisme yang<br />dipaparkan oleh Eagleton. Kritik sastra materialistik mangasumsikan bahwa teks sastra tidak bertindak pasif, tetapi<br />secara aktif menentukan proses produksi dan struktur ideologi yang membentuknya. Karya sastra merupakan produk<br />interaksi dan artikulasi aspek eksternal dan internal teks. Skema kritik sastra materialistik memosisikan aspek<br />eksternal berada di luar teks yang terdiri atas kontituen-kontituen ideologi yang meliputi: corak produksi umum,<br />ideologi umum, corak produksi sastra, ideologi kepegarangan, dan ideologi estetik. Internal teks merujuk pada<br />ideologi teks yang merupakan produk dari interaksi dan artikulasi kontituen-kontituen eksternal teks yang telah<br />dijabarkan sebelumnya dan membentuk serangkaian tegangan, pengolahan dan transformasi. Hasil Penelitian<br />ini menunjukkan bahwa teks yang berupa Teks Sastra dalam Majalah Pandji Poestaka merupakan hasil artikulasi<br />dominasi kekuasaan Jepang yang menerapkan sistem pemerintahan fasisme-militersme. Mobilization and Control <br />merupakan teknik Jepang guna mendominasi kekuatan dan relasi produksi di Indonesia. Dominasi tersebut<br />mengakibatkan tekanan dan ketimpangan dalam masyarakat, sehingga memunculkan kontestasi ideologi yang<br />diusung oleh para pejuang nasionalis, gerakan bawah tanah, hingga pemberontakan masyarakat kelas bawah yaitu<br />petani. Simpulannya pemberontakan tesebut melahirkan ideologi nasionalisme, sosialisme hingga anarkisme yang<br />memiliki cita-cita yang sama yaitu semangat kebebasan, anti imperialisme, kemerdekaan dan bayangan akan sebuah<br />bangsa (nation). <br /> <br />Kata Kunci: Struktur Ideologi, Teks Sastra Pandji Poestaka, Materialisme Eagleton.<br /> <br /> <br />ABSTRACT<br /> <br />This study describes the ideology structure of Teks Sastra in Pandji Poestaka magazine during the Japanese <br />colonial Indonesia (1943-1945). Theory applied in this study is Eagleton’s materialism. This critic concerns on how<br />a literary work acts in the process of production and in shaping the ideology structure. In this case, a literary work<br />is regarded as a product of interaction and articulation in external and internal aspects of the text. The materialism<br />critic places the external aspect outside the text, includes ideology constituents, such as general mode of production,<br />general ideology, literary mode of production, author ideology, and aesthetic ideology. Meanwhile, this critic refers<br />the internal aspect to ideology of the text. This ideology is a product of those constituents’ interaction and<br />articulation that form a sequence of exertions, accomplishment, and transformation. The result of the study<br />shows that the text Teks Sastra in Panjdi Poestaka magazine is articulation of Japanese domination that applied<br />fascism-militarism in their colonial. In order to dominate the strength and the production relation in Indonesia,<br />Japan also uses mobilization and control technic. Therefore, there is inequality in society and they are pressured.<br />This leads the society to do many kinds of struggle to fight the Japanese domination. The struggles produce the</p><p><br />ideology of nationalism, anti-imperialism. Besides, Indonesian wants to reach the Independence and to have a<br />nation.</p><p>Key Words: Structure of Ideology, Teks Sastra Pandji Poestaka, Materialism, Eagleton.</p>

Irony and the Question of Presentation in The American Scene

Several scenarios of The American Scene are studied to emphasize the irreconcilable nature of performative and constative functions of language as a medium of aesthetic presentation, rendering impossible any attempt to reduce the text to a historico-political document, and underwriting on the contrary the ironic character of its discourse. This discursive irony is read as a counter-force to the aesthetic ideology that James sees installing itself in the United States as what he calls the “hotel-world,” a nihilist and spectacular mode of the American spirit.

The Pornometric Gospel

The chapter argues that the aesthetic ideology and justification of the centrality of the female nude in art was affected by the widespread circulation of cheap reproductions of nudes (in Salon catalogs or on postcards). While the genre of the nude was central to art, and the training of artists, this value was undermined by the widespread availability of “pornographic” nudes. This chapter traces the response to this altered condition in the work of two artists: Walter Sickert and Wyndham Lewis. Sickert’s Camden Town nudes attempt to recuperate the nude for art through a gritty realism. Wyndham Lewis’s novel Tarr, however, rejects the nude as a subject for art entirely and develops an entire aesthetics predicated on the rejection of the naked body as an appropriate subject for art. The author traces this rejection to the changed status of the nude in an era of mechanically reproduced images.

Stalinism and De-Stalinization

By 1948, a full-fledged Stalinist dictatorship was introduced all over the region. Socialist realism became an official aesthetic ideology; in historiography, in most cases it was the national Romantic vision that was extolled as “progressive,” but there were also attempts to claim the progressive character of a strong central state power. Independent reflection on Stalinism was only possible either in exile or in the private sphere. After Stalin’s death, however, criticism started to appear, digging more and more into hitherto banned cultural, economic, and historical topics. In 1956 the dramatic events in Hungary and Poland triggered a wave of reflections on the limits of resistance. Yugoslavia, breaking with the Soviet bloc in 1948, followed a different trajectory; however, this did not lead to a lack of repressions towards dissidents, such as Milovan Đilas, whose theory of the “new class” was to have an enormous impact in the region and beyond.