The Googlization of Everything
To search for something on the Web using Google is not unlike confessing your desires to a mysterious power. — Siva Vaidhyanathan In one of my national democratic youth activist friends online conversations with Simsimi, the free artificial intelligence conversation program,
The Googlization of Everything
To search for something on the Web using Google is not unlike confessing your desires to a mysterious power. — Siva Vaidhyanathan In one of my national democratic youth activist friends online conversations with Simsimi, the free artificial intelligence conversation program,
After the Dinner Party
The changing of my blog’s name from (Mis)readings to After the Dinner Party on the other hand has more at stake than mere whim or impulse. This may come as a surprise for some readers. After all, I’ve been using the name (Mis)readings since I started publishing the blog for exactly two years already since August 2008.
There are two main reasons for the change. The first has to do with vanity. The second is perhaps more significant and for that reason more circuitous.
After the Dinner Party
The changing of my blog’s name from (Mis)readings to After the Dinner Party on the other hand has more at stake than mere whim or impulse. This may come as a surprise for some readers. After all, I’ve been using the name (Mis)readings since I started publishing the blog for exactly two years already since August 2008.
There are two main reasons for the change. The first has to do with vanity. The second is perhaps more significant and for that reason more circuitous.
Social Change: Karlo Mongaya says ‘start young’
A feature article about me came out in the Iloilo-based daily The News Today the other week. This is the text. SOCIAL CHANGE Karlo Mongaya says ‘start young’ By Kathy M. Villalon The Philippines’ cultural, economic and political systems that
Social Change: Karlo Mongaya says ‘start young’
A feature article about me came out in the Iloilo-based daily The News Today the other week. This is the text. SOCIAL CHANGE Karlo Mongaya says ‘start young’ By Kathy M. Villalon The Philippines’ cultural, economic and political systems that
Marx was not an Academic
For most academic thinking, even left-wing academic thinking, revolution is probably not possible. Even a school of thinking for which I have great respect, the Frankfurt School, devoted most of its energy to figuring out why the German working class,
Marx was not an Academic
For most academic thinking, even left-wing academic thinking, revolution is probably not possible. Even a school of thinking for which I have great respect, the Frankfurt School, devoted most of its energy to figuring out why the German working class,
Aijaz Ahmad on the Intelligibility of Theory
My view is that one should use technical terms only when necessary, and one should try to achieve complexity of thought with as little academic jargon as possible. I am an avid reader and frequent teacher of people like Hegel
Aijaz Ahmad on the Intelligibility of Theory
My view is that one should use technical terms only when necessary, and one should try to achieve complexity of thought with as little academic jargon as possible. I am an avid reader and frequent teacher of people like Hegel
A Lengthy Rejoinder to Zamyatin’s Counterrevolutionary Science Fiction
In the name of the Benefactor, therefore, we proclaim to all the numbers of the One State: Everyone who feels capable of doing so must compose tracts, odes, manifestoes, poems, or other works extolling the beauty and the grandeur of
A Lengthy Rejoinder to Zamyatin’s Counterrevolutionary Science Fiction
In the name of the Benefactor, therefore, we proclaim to all the numbers of the One State: Everyone who feels capable of doing so must compose tracts, odes, manifestoes, poems, or other works extolling the beauty and the grandeur of
Being Barren and the Seed According to Lucretius
“For the barrenness of the males is due in some cases to the over-coarse grain of the seed, in others to excessive fineness and fluidity. The fine seed, because it cannot stick fast in its place, slips quickly away and
Being Barren and the Seed According to Lucretius
“For the barrenness of the males is due in some cases to the over-coarse grain of the seed, in others to excessive fineness and fluidity. The fine seed, because it cannot stick fast in its place, slips quickly away and
Journeys through Time and Space with Gunter Grass and Paul Theroux
A few months ago, I read Gunter Grass’ Peeling the Onion and Paul Theroux’s The Old Patagonian Express. The former, a memoir, delves into the passage of time, the retracing of memory, a coming to terms with the past. The
Journeys through Time and Space with Gunter Grass and Paul Theroux
A few months ago, I read Gunter Grass’ Peeling the Onion and Paul Theroux’s The Old Patagonian Express. The former, a memoir, delves into the passage of time, the retracing of memory, a coming to terms with the past. The
BRINGING BACK THE STATE TO THE REVOLUTION
Reblogged from saludybenedicto: by Salud Sakdal and Benedicto Algabre A spectre is haunting the neoliberal world order. The IMF-WB, the G7 leaders, the economists and their allies in the semi-colonial states have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise the
BRINGING BACK THE STATE TO THE REVOLUTION
Reblogged from saludybenedicto: by Salud Sakdal and Benedicto Algabre A spectre is haunting the neoliberal world order. The IMF-WB, the G7 leaders, the economists and their allies in the semi-colonial states have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise the
Reject the Defeatist Western “Left”
What emerges is a Left that operates without either a deep and radical critique of the status quo or a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. But perhaps even more troubling, it is a Left that has become
Reject the Defeatist Western “Left”
What emerges is a Left that operates without either a deep and radical critique of the status quo or a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. But perhaps even more troubling, it is a Left that has become
Time and Memory
Time preserves everything, but as it does so, it fades things to the colorlessness of ancient photographs fixed on metal plates. Light and time erase the contours and distinctive shading of the faces. One has to angle the image this
Time and Memory
Time preserves everything, but as it does so, it fades things to the colorlessness of ancient photographs fixed on metal plates. Light and time erase the contours and distinctive shading of the faces. One has to angle the image this
Possessing a Book
Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by
Possessing a Book
Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by
On the Contemporariness of Dante’s Inferno
This was recovered from some of my old notebooks when I was still a lousy student of literature in the University of the Philippines Visayas. 1. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is often compared to contemporary human sufferings and social ills as
On the Contemporariness of Dante’s Inferno
This was recovered from some of my old notebooks when I was still a lousy student of literature in the University of the Philippines Visayas. 1. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is often compared to contemporary human sufferings and social ills as
Castration and Princess, Princess
This was recovered from some of my old notebooks when I was still a lousy student of literature in the University of the Philippines Visayas. I am not much of a fan of anime but fortunately still see some pleasant
Castration and Princess, Princess
This was recovered from some of my old notebooks when I was still a lousy student of literature in the University of the Philippines Visayas. I am not much of a fan of anime but fortunately still see some pleasant
Fragment 02
I jot down initial unordered thoughts, usually in a mishmash of English, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, and Cebuano. Then I get up, look around, read a page or two from a book, and then return to the table. I repeat the same
Fragment 02
I jot down initial unordered thoughts, usually in a mishmash of English, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, and Cebuano. Then I get up, look around, read a page or two from a book, and then return to the table. I repeat the same
Realism’s Trouble with Ideas
Realism has never been comfortable with ideas. It could not be otherwise: realism is premised on the idea that ideas have no autonomous existence, can exist only in things. So when it needs to debate ideas, as here, realism is
Realism’s Trouble with Ideas
Realism has never been comfortable with ideas. It could not be otherwise: realism is premised on the idea that ideas have no autonomous existence, can exist only in things. So when it needs to debate ideas, as here, realism is
(Mis)readings