In Defense of the House Style: AI screening, footnotes, and mengapa Retorik tidak dioptimalkan untuk akreditasi SINTA

Min Seong Kim

doi:10.24071/ret.v14i1.640

Authors

Min Seong Kim Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta Author https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0272-2173

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24071/ret.v14i1.640

Abstract

In this editorial, I explain the choices that Retorik has made regarding citation style and the use of generative AI in articles, including its decision not to adopt threshold-based AI-detection cutoffs. I also elaborate on the mandatory inclusion of author statements, starting with volume 14, issue 1. I present the choices that pertain to the form of the journal—such as the preference for Chicago’s notes-and-bibliography citation style—as deliberate attempts to embody something of the journal’s substance, that is, its critical orientation. Although Retorik cannot afford to ignore the requirements of Indonesia’s academic-governance apparatuses, this does not entail passive acquiescence to trends that represent the very objects of cultural criticism. If, as Theodor Adorno wrote, “[w]rong life cannot be lived rightly,” it is nonetheless possible to strive to “live less wrongly.”

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