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Filmic Eco-warnings and Television: Rolf de Heer’s Epsilon (1995) and Dr. Plonk (2007)
Authors: Starrs D. Bruno 
Published: February 2023

The possibility is considered that Australian film-maker Rolf de Heer has followed Epsilon (1995) with another filmic eco-warning, Dr. Plonk (2007), in which, as Mark J. Lacy despairs, heroic "dynamic individuals" unhelpfully "reinforce a (neo)liberal imaginary" (2001: 636), thus obliging Judith Hess Wright's allegation that genre films maintain the social status quo by offering "absurd solutions to economic and social conflicts" (2003: 42). But rather than 'shouting' the message that a messianic hero-figure can save the world as in his first eco-politically correct film, it is argued that de Heer has subsequently made a silent film in which the saviour fails: the eponymous Dr. Plonk is imprisoned and makes a subtle, unspoken plea to the audience to get out from in front of their television sets and save the world from ecological apocalypse themselves. De Heer has expressed considerable disdain towards television but this paper suggests that to maximise reception of their eco-warnings the eco-conscious film-maker needs to recognise the potential of interactive television and other new media technologies to increase voter turnout and to effect the aversion of global apocalypse through audiences taking individual responsibility.
The Shanghai Gesture
Authors: King Homay 
Published: February 2023

Many classical films noirs rely upon Orientalist elements of mise-en-scène to convey a sense of enigma or unintelligibility. This article gives a name to this visual trope, “the Shanghai gesture,” and describes how Asian objects in Hollywood cinema have come to be associated with the irrational. In The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941) and The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946), elements of Orientalist décor function to evoke a sense of mystery or exoticism. In many cases, these elements are little more than exoticist set-dressing. However, in some cases they come to bear the burden of explanation for unresolved aspects of the plot, or even to suggest a limit-point of western rationality. This article concludes with a discussion of The Shanghai Gesture (Sternberg, 1941), addressing both mise-en-scène and the unique circumstances that surrounded its production. Based on a play by John Colton, the property was greatly sought after by all the major Hollywood studios, and rejected numerous times by the Hays Office for its “sordid” depictions of Shanghai bawdy-houses and casinos. Archival correspondence reveals that Hays and others linked the script’s sordidness to its Asian setting. Both a hot commodity and an object in need of censorship, The Shanghai Gesture itself became an over-determined Orientalist object, at once coveted and taboo, desirable and incomprehensible.
Ge-stell and the Specters of the Spectrum
Authors: Eppel Erik 
Published: February 2023

No more than a few hundred meters separate the site where Gugliemo Marconi first witnessed the extraordinary effects of Hertzian waves in 1895, and the site where armored vehicles crashed through barricades in order to put down a riot allegedly incited by local radio station, Radio Alice, in 1977. When considering that the former represents the point of departure for one of the most important inventions of the 20th century and the latter represents one of its most paradigmatic instantiations, we might question whether their proximity is something other than coincidental. Affirming that this is more than a coincidence, however, carries with it the necessity and responsibility to demonstrate some causal relationship between Marconi's invention and its appropriation, circa 80 years later, by a group of students and activists in search of means to communicate, organize, experiment and play.
The Shoah Simulacrum: postmemory and spectral homecoming in Maxim Biller’s novella “Harlem Holocaust”
Authors: Köver Veronika 
Published: February 2023

In the context of the current German memory discourse, the age-old question of the interplay of remembrance and effacement has been revived. This article proposes to shed light on some of its ramifications through the prism of Maxim Biller’s novella Harlem Holocaust. Biller, born 1960 in Prague, is a German-Jewish short-story writer, novelist and newspaper columnist. Initially known for his incisive articles in the quasi legendary Tempo magazine and now for his satirical column “Moralische Geschichten” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Biller writes on socio-political, cultural and personal issues, touching on German reunification, American literature, latent anti-semitism and convoluted love relationships. His novels and short stories are highly. A close reading of his novella Harlem Holocaust in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory and Jean Baudrillard’s concept of the simulacrum facilitates the comprehension of how the German discourse on memory has slowly been hollowed out, persisting nowadays as pure form engaged in a spectral homecoming. Indeed, old memories – distorted through the manipulation as much as through the natural erosion of the past – are returning to haunt the present, oblivious that they are only spectres.
Technology and Perception in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire: A Reflection on Time, Space and Memory in the Postmodern Metropolis
Authors: Kaplan Silia 
Published: February 2023

Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire is a work that cinematically explores discourses of history and memory in postwar Germany and, since its 1987 inception, most examinations of the film have centered on these aspects. However, little attention has been given to the significant role of technology in Wenders’ film. Emphasized not only in the opening scenes but also throughout the rest of the film, transportation technologies such as airplanes, cars, and trains link the spaces of the city and therefore lie at the heart of Wenders’ Berlin portrait. Furthermore, the self-reflexive nature of Wenders’ work posits film as the quintessential technological medium of storytelling and history, and my paper will thus link theories of technology and perception with those of memory and history. I will begin my paper by elucidating Paul Virilio’s and Jean Baudrillard’s theories of speed and spatiality in postmodern society and will link these theories with the portrayal of transportation technologies in Wings of Desire. The next part turns to Walter Benjamin’s model of space and memory as a more optimistic approach to spatiality in Wenders’ Berlin portrait, and this latter model will prove to be highly significant in my final analysis of Wenders’ film. In particular, I will explore the film’s emphasis on spaces of absence and the way in which this emphasis reveals a model for a new kind of perception and a model for narrating the past. The last section of my paper will stress the way in which Wenders mediates between the communication technologies of transportation and film, and further, between modernity and postmodernity. Ultimately, the technological perception created by transportation technologies (and theorized extensively by postmodernist theorists Baudrillard and Virilio) is redeemed by the medium of film because of its ability to overcome what film theorist Siegfried Kracauer calls the “blind spots of the mind” (53).
“a void rubbing out its own inscription”: Electronic Technology, Hypertext and the Paradox of Self-Erasure
Authors: Martin Luke Korzun 
Published: February 2023

The advent of electronic technologies like the computer and the internet necessitated new ways of writing and thinking about writing. Where the age of mechanical and industrial technologies led to Blake’s visionary engravings and Swift imagining a random text generator in Gulliver's Travels, “for improving speculative Knowledge by practical and mechanical Operations” (171), the electronic age might be said to have given rise to the work of composers like John Cage and Brian Eno, hypertextual writers such as Michael Joyce and Mark Amerika and the work of the Oulipo. Perhaps the predominant linguistic theory associated with, though not limited to, electronic technologies is that of “hypertext”. Hypertext is defined by Ted Nelson, who coined the term, as “non-sequential writing with reader-controlled links” (qtd. in Bolter 105), and George Landow as a technology that matches Barthes's ideal textuality of a “text composed of blocks of words (or images) linked electronically by multiple paths, chains, or trails in an open-ended, perpetually unfinished textuality described by the terms link, node, network, web, and path” (Landow 2). Nelson and Landow’s succinct definitions are both accurate, but fail to encompass the extent to which the hypertextual model destabilizes conventional notions of the text. This essay will examine the ways in which hypertexts erase themselves, and the implications this paradox of self-erasure has for the whole field of signification, the material status of the text and hypertextual conceptions of identity.
Nabokov and Wenders: Lost Landscapes and Found Meaning in the Age of the Sign Economy
Authors: Griffiths Rhys 
Published: February 2023

Protest as David Andrews might against the 'misperception' of Vladimir Nabokov as 'the postmodern author par excellence', claiming Nabokov as 'premodernist in outlook' (63), there is one sense in which Nabokov cannot escape the 'postmodern' label identified by Fredric Jameson. Jameson defines postmodernism, in part, as:A periodizing concept whose function is to correlate the emergence of new formal features in culture with the emergence of a new type of social life and a new economic order - what is often euphemistically called modernization, postindustrial or consumer society, the society of the media or the spectacle, or multinational capitalism ('Postmodernism and Consumer Society' 1962).Adopting Jameson's dating of this 'new moment of capitalism' to 'the postwar boom in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s' (1962), this essay opens with an assertion of Nabokov as an author subject to, what Andrews terms, certain 'postmodern realities' (63).The aim of this essay is a study of these postmodern realities as a product of the consumer society and the emergence and maturation of what Pamela Odih calls the 'sign economy' (126) in two texts from 'high epochs' of late capitalism, Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984). Paramount to the argument herein is Jameson's assertion that the 'formal features' of postmodernism (defined by the era of late capitalism) will 'express the deeper logic of that particular system' (1974). However, the first requirement of this introduction is a situating of the chosen texts within what has been termed 'high epochs' of late capitalism.
Fictional, Factual, and Flying Space: Throwing at the Theatre in The Author on the Wheel
Authors: Bernard Hope 
Published: February 2023

The anonymously-written one-act play The Author on the Wheel, or, a Piece Cut in the Green Room premiered at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on April 18, 1785 (The Daily Universal Register April 18, 1785). It follows a theatre manager with an awful, yet necessary task on his hands: to substantially revise and cut down a play in between the play’s first and second performances. The opening night performance of the play was such a failure that it provoked the audience to throw fruit at the actors to show their disdain; therefore the cast refuses to perform until the script is substantially changed. The revision session in the green room does not go according to plan, and after much insult and humiliation from the manager, cast, and crew, the arrogant author storms out with his manuscript, ready to inflict his awful dialogue on another unsuspecting theatre company.Spaces in the theatre, due to their dynamic and potent properties, offer a way to examine meanings created by spectators and performers in terms of physical space, fictional space, and even textual space. Through my study of The Author on the Wheel, I consider a part of performance that complicates the idea of physical stage space to an extreme (and sometimes even dangerous) degree while somehow managing to avoid much historical and theoretical scrutiny: the thrown object. I investigate the movement between and amongst spaces made by the thrown object. The thrown objects to which I am referring are the apples, pears and oranges hurled toward the stage by the fictional audience in The Author on the Wheel. The incident of the thrown object occurs only as a memory in the play, recounted in the after-performance discussion in the green room. Through this dialogue, the characters tell tales of acting on the stage whilst enduring a barrage of fruit.
Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces
Authors: Pak CHris 
Published: February 2023

Science fiction employs a distinctive language to engage speculatively yet critically with our contemporary world. Space, with its discrete planetary bodies and other cosmic objects, functions both as an emblem of science fiction and operates in a more general sense as a space in which to map social, ideological and ontological boundaries between cultures and between humanity and the universe. This is especially evident in narratives of terraforming. They engage with climate change and environmental philosophy and bring these discourses into contact with a postcolonial geopolitics that is reflected upon through the colonisation of other worlds. Science fiction makes use of plausible representations of science to build spaces on separate worlds where these issues can be confronted and alternative socio-political configurations entertained. This dynamic can be seen at the intersections between ecocritical and postcolonial theory in Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, comprising Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. In order to highlight the critical spaces put into play and the distinctive contribution science fiction makes to these issues, my point of entry will be the language of science fiction. I examine the megatextual trope of terraforming and the significance of Robinson's development of this motif before analysing specific chronotopes and the values connected to them. I then consider Edward Said's discussion of space and the Other to ask how Robinson's Mars trilogy operates as an exploration of dialogised spaces concerned with imagining socio-economic issues from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives. First, however, I begin by considering M.M. Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope and dialogism alongside Damien Broderick's notion of the science fiction megatext.
Revenge and Remake: Meir Zarchi's Day of the Woman and Steven Monroe's I Spit on Your Grave
Authors: Ingrassia Nathalie S. 
Published: February 2023

Meir Zarchi's 1977 Day of the Woman was relatively ignored by the public before its title was changed to the more provocative and thus marketable I Spit on Your Grave(hereafter abbreviated as Spit). Appalled reviewers and its inclusion in the 1983 British list of "video nasties" earned the film a cult status that gave rise to a 2010 remake of what had been described as "an extraordinarily difficult film to watch" (Clover 115). Both films possess a typical rape-revenge plot: a young writer, Jennifer Hills, leaves New York to spend the summer in a remote country cabin, hoping to find the peace and quiet she needs to write her novel. She meets a group of local thugs - one of them being "mentally handicapped" (Ebert) - who first harass, then brutally and repetitively rape her. The second act of the film covers the young woman's bloody revenge against her tormentors.The protagonist's vengeance has been criticised for being "as vicious" (Martin and Porter 704) as the acts of violence committed against her. According to Carol Clover, "that is of course true. It lies in the nature of revenge or self-defence stories […] that the avenger or self-defender will become as directly or indirectly violent as her assailant, and, [...] these films are in some measure about the transformation" (123). The original Spit, however, is often regarded as an exploitation film aiming to bait its audience with unjustifiable and gratuitous violence. In order to address this idea this paper will first consider both movies from the angle of retributive justice and the "lex talionis" (Clover 120) - the law of retaliation - then analyse and compare how directorial choices support and undermine the avenger's position in the 1977 Spit and its remake.
Can Religious and Machiavellian Influence Tax Evasion? Research Based on Gender and Age Perspective
Authors: Atmoko Alfriadi Dwi 
Published: February 2023

This study aims to empirically examine the effect of religiosity and Machiavellian on tax evasion and to examine the differences in each variable based on gender and age perspectives. The population and sample in this study are taxpayers in the Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) who have reported their tax obligations with a total sample of 140 respondents. This research method is quantitative with multiple regression analysis to test the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable and independent sample t-test to test differences in perspectives based on gender and age. The sampling technique uses simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were distributed using personally administered questionnaires and electronically using a google form. The results of this study indicate that intrinsic religiosity has no effect on tax evasion, extrinsic religiosity has a positive effect on tax evasion and maciavellian has a positive effect on tax evasion. There are differences in the level of intrinsic religiosity, extrinsic religiosity, machiavellian and tax evasion based on gender. There is no difference in the level of intrinsic religiosity, extrinsic religiosity and machiavellian based on the age perspective, but there are differences in the level of tax evasion based on the age perspective.
Financial Statements Disclosure On Indonesian Local Government : IPSAS And PSAP Disclosure Approach
Authors: Inata Lia Candra , Saraswati Erwin , Ghofar Abdul 
Published: February 2023

The objective of this research is to assess and analyze the effect of political culture, government financial, government size, and economic growth on Indonesian local government’s financial reporting disclosure. The financial reporting disclosure of government, particularly the locals, is an important aspect for the fulfillment of users’ need for information. The sample of this research is 320 research data from 64 Indonesian local governments that meet certain criteria. The multiple regression analysis performed on the data has led to findings political culture expressed with the level of openness of local governments and large measures of government is a factor for informants to disclose information in accordance with the provisions of international standards and local governments to be more open. While government finance and economic growth do not influence local governments to disclose information. This is because governments that have better financial conditions tend to have less information disclosure rate. This research can be used by local governments to evaluate their information disclosures and to improve them by referring to applicable standards, guided by IPSAS, and can be used by the committee to enhance the related standard rules.
PERAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM MEREDUKSI TINDAK PIDANAA KORUPSI DI DAERAH
Authors: Buchori Muslim Mohammad , Hariri Achmad 
Published: February 2023

Korupsi pada tahun-tahun terakhir ini diributkan dengan banyaknya yang tersangkut kasus korupsi. Korupsi ini kemudian berbuah pada kerugian yang diderita publik, seperti kemiskinan dan kesenjangan sosial dll. Sejak 2004 hingga Februari 2021, total sudah ada 126 kepala daerah yang ditetapkan KPK sebagai tersangka korupsi. . Kasus-kasus korupsi yang terjadi di pemerintah, khususnya pemerintah daerah tidak lepas dari lemahnya fungsi pencegahan dari dalam. Adapun berdasarkan data dari KPK, jumlah tindak pidana korupsi dari tahun 2004 s.d. 2019 terbanyak yaitu pada instansi pemerintah daerah (provinsi dan kabupaten/kota) sebanyak 500 kasus dari total 1032 kasus (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, 2020: 70-71).Upaya untuk melawan atau memberantas korupsi tidak cukup dengan menangkap dan menjebloskan koruptor ke penjara, sebab peluang untuk berbuat korupsi terhampar luas di hadapan para calon koruptor. Itulah sebabnya diperlukan penanaman nilai-nilai Integritas yang baik serta melakukan upaya pencegahan yang di pelopori oleh pemerintah daerah itu sendiri tanpa menunggu pencegahan yang dilakukan oleh lembaga- lembaga anti korupsi, serta peran dari luar pemerintah daerah misalnya masyarakat juga sangat penting dalam mencegah terjadinya tindak pidana korupsi di lingkungan pemerintah daerah.
Pemblokiran PayPal sebagai Wujud Penyelenggara Sistem Elektronik Lintas Batas Negara
Authors: Sari Noor Annisa Ditya , Bachry Ramadhana Anindyajati 
Published: February 2023

This article offers a solution to the blocking of PayPal involving international transactions across national borders in terms of the Minister of Communication and Informatics Regulation Number 5 of 2020 concerning Electronic System Operators (PSE). PayPal is a cross-border financial service provider application. The reason for the blocking is because PayPal did not register their permits, while socialization of the registration of the Electronic System Operator Program (PSE) policy has been given 2 (two) years. The PayPal application itself has provided massive financial services and one of the most users is in Indonesia. The use of PayPal by the global community is inseparable from its usefulness in facilitating cross-border transactions, in addition to waiving administrative fees for certain uses, PayPal is also considered to facilitate international transactions. Nonetheless, the blocking by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics poses difficulties for cross-border transactions. The difficulty consists in freezing accounts or foreign exchange owned by consumers. The brief reopening of the block resulted in consumers being materially harmed. This article uses normative law research methods.
Perbedaan Hasil Belajar Senam Lantai Berdasarkan Model Pembelajaran yang Diberikan Secara Daring
Authors: Suryadani I Gusti Ayu Ketut , Sudiana I Ketut , Semarayasa I Ketut 
Published: February 2023

Pembelajaran di sekolah saat ini harus menerapkan pembelajaran daring dalam memberikan materi pembelajaran ke peserta didik selama pandemi COVID-19, termasuk materi senam lantai pada mata pelajaran PJOK. Penerapan pembelajaran daring membutuhkan model pembelajaran yang tepat sehingga dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar peserta didik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan penerapan model pembelajaran discovery dan flipped classroom dalam meningkatkan hasil belajar senam lantai. Penelitian quasi-experimental ini dilaksanakan dengan desain post-test only non-equivalent control group. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 60 peserta didik kelas XI, yang terbagi dalam kelompok model pembelajaran discovery dan flipped classroom yang diberikan secara daring. Hasil belajar senam lantai diukur dengan menggunakan instrumen ranah kognitif (soal pilihan ganda) dan ranah psikomotor (tes unjuk kerja dibantu dengan lembar observasi). Data yang dikumpulkan selanjutnya diukur dan dianalisis dengan two sample t-test. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahwa hasil belajar senam lantai antara peserta didik yang mengikuti model pembelajaran discovery lebih baik secara signfikan dibandingkan hasil belajar peserta didik yang mengikuti model pembelajaran flipped classroom. Model pembelajaran discovery dapat dapat membangkitkan minat belajar, keaktifan, serta bermanfaat dalam menerapkan model pembelajaran inovatif bagi guru.