Monthly Archives: June 2010
E. San Juan, Jr. to Baudrillard: No Investigation, No Right to Speak
I do not know whether to laugh or be outraged when Jean Baudrillard (1984), in his notorious essay “The Precession of Simulacra,” uses a group of aboriginal Filipinos known as “Tasaday” (which the Marcos dictatorship fabricated for its commercial and
E. San Juan, Jr. to Baudrillard: No Investigation, No Right to Speak
I do not know whether to laugh or be outraged when Jean Baudrillard (1984), in his notorious essay “The Precession of Simulacra,” uses a group of aboriginal Filipinos known as “Tasaday” (which the Marcos dictatorship fabricated for its commercial and
The Internet and Identity Formation
Following aleekwrites suggestion (albeit belatedly), I would be posting brief comments on or at least snippets from the essays found in Internet Culture, one of the books that I’m reading every now and then. In “An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality,
The Internet and Identity Formation
Following aleekwrites suggestion (albeit belatedly), I would be posting brief comments on or at least snippets from the essays found in Internet Culture, one of the books that I’m reading every now and then. In “An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality,
The Secret Meaning of Paradise is That it Too is Hell
In Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers, the remarkable Miss Puttermesser is introduced in an ironic tone that announces the mayhem to come. In reading this book, one discards the realist mode of interpretation for the surreal. Puttermesser is an erudite
The Secret Meaning of Paradise is That it Too is Hell
In Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers, the remarkable Miss Puttermesser is introduced in an ironic tone that announces the mayhem to come. In reading this book, one discards the realist mode of interpretation for the surreal. Puttermesser is an erudite
She Laughs and Declares That I Prefer the Boy to Her
At the touch of new sensations, certain portions of me awoke. (13) At the turn of the 20th Century, Michel, the sickly intellectual and landowner who is the protagonist of Andre Gide’s The Immoralist, marries Marceline without being in love to
She Laughs and Declares That I Prefer the Boy to Her
At the touch of new sensations, certain portions of me awoke. (13) At the turn of the 20th Century, Michel, the sickly intellectual and landowner who is the protagonist of Andre Gide’s The Immoralist, marries Marceline without being in love to
A Critical Response to Genevieve Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila
On a personal note, I bought a signed copy of Genevieve L. Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila on a discounted price from the author herself during last April’s National Congress of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) in Mambukal Mountain
A Critical Response to Genevieve Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila
On a personal note, I bought a signed copy of Genevieve L. Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila on a discounted price from the author herself during last April’s National Congress of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) in Mambukal Mountain
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Sometimes it’s not what you desire the most that you want, but the opposite – to be deprived of what you desire the most. (125) The sailor from Gibraltar, that enigmatic creation of Marguerite Duras, that unattainable figure that you
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Sometimes it’s not what you desire the most that you want, but the opposite – to be deprived of what you desire the most. (125) The sailor from Gibraltar, that enigmatic creation of Marguerite Duras, that unattainable figure that you
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