Monthly Archives: September 2011

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The Futility and Deception of the Latin American Social Democratic Regimes

These governments are now coming up against the limits of redistributive reform within the logic of global capitalism, especially in the wake of the global crisis that exploded in 2008.

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The Futility and Deception of the Latin American Social Democratic Regimes

These governments are now coming up against the limits of redistributive reform within the logic of global capitalism, especially in the wake of the global crisis that exploded in 2008.

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The Primacy of Practice

Man’s social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world. What actually happens is that man’s knowledge is verified only when he achieves the anticipated results in the process of social practice (material

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The Primacy of Practice

Man’s social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world. What actually happens is that man’s knowledge is verified only when he achieves the anticipated results in the process of social practice (material

Desert of the Real

Not Enough Words

I always tell the truth. Not the whole truth, because one can’t. To say everything is impossible. There aren’t enough words. It’s this impossibility which brings truth close to the Real. Jacques Lacan

Desert of the Real

Not Enough Words

I always tell the truth. Not the whole truth, because one can’t. To say everything is impossible. There aren’t enough words. It’s this impossibility which brings truth close to the Real. Jacques Lacan

Massive Planking near Mendiola

Iloilo Youth Joins Historic Show of Rage Against Aquino’s Education Cuts

Joined by tens of thousands of youth and students, teachers, employees, and enlightened school administrators, yesterday’s culmination of the weeklong nationwide campus strikes is a just act against the Aquino regime’s budget cuts for education and social services. Here in

Massive Planking near Mendiola

Iloilo Youth Joins Historic Show of Rage Against Aquino’s Education Cuts

Joined by tens of thousands of youth and students, teachers, employees, and enlightened school administrators, yesterday’s culmination of the weeklong nationwide campus strikes is a just act against the Aquino regime’s budget cuts for education and social services. Here in

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In The Mood For Apocalypse

The capitalist world-economy will fall apart due to its own laws of motion probably no later than the mid-twenty-first century. However, by that time, too much time would have been lost to prevent global catastrophes. There will probably be socialist

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In The Mood For Apocalypse

The capitalist world-economy will fall apart due to its own laws of motion probably no later than the mid-twenty-first century. However, by that time, too much time would have been lost to prevent global catastrophes. There will probably be socialist

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Famous Last Words

Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words was not, as I first thought it to be when saw it from among the other books in the second-hand bookstore, about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The novel opens with Hugh Selwyn Mauberley‘s childhood

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Famous Last Words

Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words was not, as I first thought it to be when saw it from among the other books in the second-hand bookstore, about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The novel opens with Hugh Selwyn Mauberley‘s childhood

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Neocolonial Philippine Education

Today’s Blog Action Day organized by the youth group Anakbayan as part of the buildup for next week’s nationwide campus strikes against President Noynoy Aquino’s budget cuts for education and social services provides a good venue for discussing problems confronting

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Neocolonial Philippine Education

Today’s Blog Action Day organized by the youth group Anakbayan as part of the buildup for next week’s nationwide campus strikes against President Noynoy Aquino’s budget cuts for education and social services provides a good venue for discussing problems confronting

The East is Red!

Vulgar Views on Benjamin, Aesthetics, Postmodernism, and Revolutionary Change

Here are some of my views that I raised in a little discussion started by Trace about Walter Benjamin and his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” at facebook sometime last week, views that would

The East is Red!

Vulgar Views on Benjamin, Aesthetics, Postmodernism, and Revolutionary Change

Here are some of my views that I raised in a little discussion started by Trace about Walter Benjamin and his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” at facebook sometime last week, views that would

Infinity

Towards Infinity

Not only do signs form an infinite network, but the network of signs is infinitely circular. The statement survives its object, the name survives its owner. Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus

Infinity

Towards Infinity

Not only do signs form an infinite network, but the network of signs is infinitely circular. The statement survives its object, the name survives its owner. Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus

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On the Arrest of 3 UP Cebu Students and the Struggle of the Aloguinsan Peasants

University of the Philippines Cebu students Melanie Montano, Januelle Rontos and Remy Jade Manzon never expected to land in a cramped jail cell that day. August 29 was National Heroes Day, an otherwise ordinary sunny Monday if not for the

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On the Arrest of 3 UP Cebu Students and the Struggle of the Aloguinsan Peasants

University of the Philippines Cebu students Melanie Montano, Januelle Rontos and Remy Jade Manzon never expected to land in a cramped jail cell that day. August 29 was National Heroes Day, an otherwise ordinary sunny Monday if not for the

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Literary Distinctions

Writers shouldn’t be mistaken for priests, it goes without saying; but neither should movie-script manufacturers be mistaken for writers. Readers are not the same as audiences, and the structure of a novel is not the same as the structure of

highbrow

Literary Distinctions

Writers shouldn’t be mistaken for priests, it goes without saying; but neither should movie-script manufacturers be mistaken for writers. Readers are not the same as audiences, and the structure of a novel is not the same as the structure of