Tag: digital culture
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Digital Civilization and Global Ethics: Toward a Planetary Future Without Moral Anchors
In this essay, I would like to discuss how digital life and digital culture can create a concept of Global ethics. Perhaps many want to know what would happen when the power of science can compete with God’s technology. Human science has almost reached the point of dominating this world. Almost everything can be manipulated…
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Cultural Engineering in the Planetary Age: AI, Techno-Religion, and the Crisis of Human Consciousness
The planetary age is not merely a technological transition but a profound reconfiguration of human existence. As artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and algorithmic systems reshape the production of knowledge and the structure of perception, culture itself becomes engineered rather than inherited. This essay explores how techno-religion, automated knowledge, and the acceleration of digital life are…
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The Warung as World: Coffee, Power, and Social Life in Aceh
In Aceh, coffee is not merely a beverage. It is a social contract, a public ritual, and a medium through which hierarchy, generosity, obligation, and political intelligence are continuously negotiated. The warung kopi is where Acehnese society thinks aloud, reads itself, and transforms historical change into everyday conversation.