Malay governing body as well as Ramleeology
Azly Rahman
"Alif-Mim-Nun-Wau... sarkis!" - pronounced a character in P Ramlee's movie Pendekar Bujang Lapok.
Of late you have been strike by nostalgia, reminiscing as well as even romanticising a 60s, 70s as well as a early 80s before Mahathirism took root.
My last column on Malaysia in a 70s was an enjoyable square of journaling as well as from a numerous comments you read from all a blogs which carry it - my own blog Between Cybernetics as well as Existentialism, my Facebook page, Malaysia Today, etc - you feel which there was a time when a good Malaysian suggestion was about to be forged.
This was which clarity of a chronological block, until May 13, 1969 came, of course; either it was orchestrated or a feat campaign which went wrong you have been commencement to find out, as alternative accounts of it go on to be written.
After grieving in honeyed memories of a 70s, you subsequent suspicion of a 60s; a time when you was growing up in Johor Baru as well as how a kampong as well as a city as well as a school you went to became my "global classrooms".
My fond memories always go behind to a "multicultural Malaysia you knew - especially how you owed my seductiveness in guidance as well as omnivorous titillate to take believe through a unselfish work of my teachers - Malay, Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, as well as even my Peace Corps American teachers.
Without them, you would not have been means to write honestly about a need not only to "tolerate" other culture! s though to sense from any a single of them, welcome a dynamics of each, as well as to move out a universality of a values, as well as subsequent to design good guidance systems as well as environments which wi! ll maint ain these differences in to commonalities as well as to hybridise a wisdom you will acquire.
This is what has been lacking in a preparation complement - critical sensibility as well as a embracing of a thought of "cultural action for freedom", as a Brazilian tutorial reflective thinker Paulo Freire would say.
A P Ramlee movie
Of late, too, you have been watching P Ramlee movies - reminiscing my childhood days as well with my mental recall of a black as well as white television, which "machine to call on distant divided vision" (tele + vision), or on a some-more fanciful basis, anthropologists of record would call "a fantasy-machine in a garden" as well as in this case, a "TV in a peaceful kampong".
I watched as well as "read closely" Malaysia's good humanist-social-philosopher P Ramlee's, classic of a 60s Pendekar Bujang Lapok.
I found something interesting in there worthy, in fact, of a full-blown thesis on a anthropology of a Malays. Here is what you discovered about a initial seventeen mins of it:
There is an intellectual horizon in "reading" this movie; a single which could be a hybrid of political-economy of growth as well as underdevelopment (see a work of a Dependenistas/Dependency Theorists of a 70s), World-Systems Theory, Marx's thought of "technological determinism", i.e. record as a shaper of amicable relations of production (see my thesis Thesis on Cyberjaya, on a start of Cyberjaya as well as a last contention on Marx as well as record as well as culture), semiotics of power, as in a thought of "habitus" (see Pierre Bourdieu's work on "symbolic power") as well as a study of post-colonialism emblematic in a work of Albert Memmi's Colonizer as well as a Colonized, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks, as well as others! in a g! enre of mental studies of oppression.
Ramleeology as method
Syed Hussein Al Attas's work is additionally instructive of a ! horizon in looking during a thought of how a image of a native is constructed, as lazy, obedient, as well as imbued with "bebalism" as well as "tolol-ism " (feudalistic Malay idiocy as well as moronism); assembled by a rich as well as land-owning category which drew inspiration from "divide as well as rule" - from a British colonials.
Indeed there is a lot to "read" in this movie; supposing you deconstruct it to a minute detail (dialogue, characterisation, symbolism, plot, discourse of power, language play, irony, metaphor, etc.). Herein lies a rejuvenation of my seductiveness in developing "Ramleeology" as a "method of cultural critique based on radical amicable theory which can be applied to a trajectoric landscape of history such as Malaysia of this 'hypermodern' era".
In only which seventeen opening minutes. you saw a entire history of a expansion of a feudal as well as neo-feudal Malay mentality being displayed; from pre-independence to this day as you equate a days to a system of administration change.
P Ramlee (left in photo) showed me what authoritarianism, stupefication, Malay gangsterism, wanton kampongism, corruption, as well as arrogance mean. These can be seen in today's arrangement of domestic idiocy, as a legacy of Mahathirism.
But during a end of which "kampong jetty scene" of Pendekar Bujang Lapok, you saw "counter-hegemony" in a form of a revolt of a Malay rank as well as file against a oppressors, as if elegant probity contingency always be with a alienated as well as humiliated Malays during opposite epochs of history.
The last "revolt scene", similar to a storming of a Bastille, as well as a overthrowing of Louis Capet as well as Marie Antoinette, you saw rallies on rallies such as t! hose you h! ave been seeing in a last couple of years commencement from a initial Bersi! h rally.
The Malays these days, a cordial ones, in collaboration with their brothers as well as sisters of opposite race, religion, inhabitant start have all become a new "pendekars" or "warriors" such a a 3 "pendekars" headed by P Ramlee.
But a last scene is not here yet. The deconstructionism mart is there; Malaysians have been means to "read" what has been delusioning them vis-a-viz a dismay called "Mahathirism", a idiocy called "Ketuanan Melayu", as well as a rhetoric called "social contract", framed according to a truncated Malay view as well as not similar to a prophesy suggested by a amicable reflective thinker of a French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
I had fun watching which sold P Ramlee movie. you think he is a visionary, rather similar to a complicated Malay prophet speaking up truth to energy for Malaysians of all races, for a oppressed, for those dehumanised by those who owns a means, methods , machinery, as well as media record of oppression.
Watch a movie on YouTube - you Malaysians have been all in it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsxdksmUieg
Read More @ Source Of late you have been strike by nostalgia, reminiscing as well as even romanticising a 60s, 70s as well as a early 80s before Mahathirism took root.
My last column on Malaysia in a 70s was an enjoyable square of journaling as well as from a numerous comments you read from all a blogs which carry it - my own blog Between Cybernetics as well as Existentialism, my Facebook page, Malaysia Today, etc - you feel which there was a time when a good Malaysian suggestion was about to be forged.
This was which clarity of a chronological block, until May 13, 1969 came, of course; either it was orchestrated or a feat campaign which went wrong you have been commencement to find out, as alternative accounts of it go on to be written.
After grieving in honeyed memories of a 70s, you subsequent suspicion of a 60s; a time when you was growing up in Johor Baru as well as how a kampong as well as a city as well as a school you went to became my "global classrooms".
My fond memories always go behind to a "multicultural Malaysia you knew - especially how you owed my seductiveness in guidance as well as omnivorous titillate to take believe through a unselfish work of my teachers - Malay, Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, as well as even my Peace Corps American teachers.
Without them, you would not have been means to write honestly about a need not only to "tolerate" other culture! s though to sense from any a single of them, welcome a dynamics of each, as well as to move out a universality of a values, as well as subsequent to design good guidance systems as well as environments which wi! ll maint ain these differences in to commonalities as well as to hybridise a wisdom you will acquire.
This is what has been lacking in a preparation complement - critical sensibility as well as a embracing of a thought of "cultural action for freedom", as a Brazilian tutorial reflective thinker Paulo Freire would say.
A P Ramlee movie
Of late, too, you have been watching P Ramlee movies - reminiscing my childhood days as well with my mental recall of a black as well as white television, which "machine to call on distant divided vision" (tele + vision), or on a some-more fanciful basis, anthropologists of record would call "a fantasy-machine in a garden" as well as in this case, a "TV in a peaceful kampong".
I watched as well as "read closely" Malaysia's good humanist-social-philosopher P Ramlee's, classic of a 60s Pendekar Bujang Lapok.
I found something interesting in there worthy, in fact, of a full-blown thesis on a anthropology of a Malays. Here is what you discovered about a initial seventeen mins of it:
There is an intellectual horizon in "reading" this movie; a single which could be a hybrid of political-economy of growth as well as underdevelopment (see a work of a Dependenistas/Dependency Theorists of a 70s), World-Systems Theory, Marx's thought of "technological determinism", i.e. record as a shaper of amicable relations of production (see my thesis Thesis on Cyberjaya, on a start of Cyberjaya as well as a last contention on Marx as well as record as well as culture), semiotics of power, as in a thought of "habitus" (see Pierre Bourdieu's work on "symbolic power") as well as a study of post-colonialism emblematic in a work of Albert Memmi's Colonizer as well as a Colonized, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks, as well as others! in a g! enre of mental studies of oppression.
Ramleeology as method
Syed Hussein Al Attas's work is additionally instructive of a ! horizon in looking during a thought of how a image of a native is constructed, as lazy, obedient, as well as imbued with "bebalism" as well as "tolol-ism " (feudalistic Malay idiocy as well as moronism); assembled by a rich as well as land-owning category which drew inspiration from "divide as well as rule" - from a British colonials.
Indeed there is a lot to "read" in this movie; supposing you deconstruct it to a minute detail (dialogue, characterisation, symbolism, plot, discourse of power, language play, irony, metaphor, etc.). Herein lies a rejuvenation of my seductiveness in developing "Ramleeology" as a "method of cultural critique based on radical amicable theory which can be applied to a trajectoric landscape of history such as Malaysia of this 'hypermodern' era".
In only which seventeen opening minutes. you saw a entire history of a expansion of a feudal as well as neo-feudal Malay mentality being displayed; from pre-independence to this day as you equate a days to a system of administration change.
P Ramlee (left in photo) showed me what authoritarianism, stupefication, Malay gangsterism, wanton kampongism, corruption, as well as arrogance mean. These can be seen in today's arrangement of domestic idiocy, as a legacy of Mahathirism. But during a end of which "kampong jetty scene" of Pendekar Bujang Lapok, you saw "counter-hegemony" in a form of a revolt of a Malay rank as well as file against a oppressors, as if elegant probity contingency always be with a alienated as well as humiliated Malays during opposite epochs of history.
The last "revolt scene", similar to a storming of a Bastille, as well as a overthrowing of Louis Capet as well as Marie Antoinette, you saw rallies on rallies such as t! hose you h! ave been seeing in a last couple of years commencement from a initial Bersi! h rally.
The Malays these days, a cordial ones, in collaboration with their brothers as well as sisters of opposite race, religion, inhabitant start have all become a new "pendekars" or "warriors" such a a 3 "pendekars" headed by P Ramlee.
But a last scene is not here yet. The deconstructionism mart is there; Malaysians have been means to "read" what has been delusioning them vis-a-viz a dismay called "Mahathirism", a idiocy called "Ketuanan Melayu", as well as a rhetoric called "social contract", framed according to a truncated Malay view as well as not similar to a prophesy suggested by a amicable reflective thinker of a French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
I had fun watching which sold P Ramlee movie. you think he is a visionary, rather similar to a complicated Malay prophet speaking up truth to energy for Malaysians of all races, for a oppressed, for those dehumanised by those who owns a means, methods , machinery, as well as media record of oppression.
Watch a movie on YouTube - you Malaysians have been all in it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsxdksmUieg
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