World Outside Simulacra

People with a taste for periodization, tell us that modernism is over, and we are now in the epoch of postmodernism. What do you think of that? I suppose it’s true to people who think exclusively in terms of America

Men Make Their Own History

One would have to pretty much scuttle all the jaw-shattering jargonistic postmodernism that now dot the landscape. They are worse than useless. They are neither capable of understanding and analyzing the power structure of this country, nor are they capable

Pagtatagpo sa Kabilang Dulo: Panitikang Testimonial ng Desaparecidos

Desaparecidos, the national organization of the families of the disappeared, and Pagbutlak, the official student publication of the University of the Philippines Visayas College of Arts and Sciences, will be book launching  Pagtatagpo sa Kabilang Dulo: Panitikang Testimonial ng Desaparecidos

An Updated New Year Book Wishlist

In 2009, I read 91 books in contrast to my 127 in 2008. The simplest explanation for this is I’ve been more busy this year. And besides, what have I really been doing in 2008 anyway? During the Summer of