Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Western Hegemony
The shockwaves of popular rebellion reverberating across the Arab world since the start of 2011 have put to the test the West’s dominion over the region; a rule that has long aimed at securing access to the Middle East’s oil
The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Western Hegemony
The shockwaves of popular rebellion reverberating across the Arab world since the start of 2011 have put to the test the West’s dominion over the region; a rule that has long aimed at securing access to the Middle East’s oil
Tumandok epic: The Panay indigenous people’s struggle for land
“Kon Madura diya nga duta, kami nga mga Tumandok Madura.” – Evelita “Ka Mera” Giganto Gedoria, Tumandok leader History is often treated like a dead museum piece. But among the Tumandok people of Panay the past lives on, not as
Tumandok epic: The Panay indigenous people’s struggle for land
“Kon Madura diya nga duta, kami nga mga Tumandok Madura.” – Evelita “Ka Mera” Giganto Gedoria, Tumandok leader History is often treated like a dead museum piece. But among the Tumandok people of Panay the past lives on, not as
The End of the Game
This one’s about one of my favorite authors written a few years ago when I was studying Management in Cebu. Finally! I finished reading End of the Game and Other Stories, a collection of fifteen short stories by the Argentine
The End of the Game
This one’s about one of my favorite authors written a few years ago when I was studying Management in Cebu. Finally! I finished reading End of the Game and Other Stories, a collection of fifteen short stories by the Argentine
Taibo: Returning as Shadows
Enthusiastic after reading Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s Four Hands, I was disappointed to find his Returning as Shadows encumbered by the overuse of postmodern literary techniques of endless ironic interruptions and the shredding of the narrative to dozens of fragments
Taibo: Returning as Shadows
Enthusiastic after reading Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s Four Hands, I was disappointed to find his Returning as Shadows encumbered by the overuse of postmodern literary techniques of endless ironic interruptions and the shredding of the narrative to dozens of fragments
Book Trailers and Murakami’s IQ84
That books should have trailers, like films, is a strange thing for me. The first book trailer I encountered is the one for Haruki Murakami’s IQ84. Of course, the book trailer has been around for some time. It is not
Book Trailers and Murakami’s IQ84
That books should have trailers, like films, is a strange thing for me. The first book trailer I encountered is the one for Haruki Murakami’s IQ84. Of course, the book trailer has been around for some time. It is not
Bullets and Modernization
Bullets’ trajectories and irreproachable swarming – which is in full empathy with the urban terrain and contours – re-engineers the city, turning it into a sponge or pumice stone with a perforated swarm-ridden liminality, a ( ) hole complex in
Bullets and Modernization
Bullets’ trajectories and irreproachable swarming – which is in full empathy with the urban terrain and contours – re-engineers the city, turning it into a sponge or pumice stone with a perforated swarm-ridden liminality, a ( ) hole complex in
Dust as Solar Data-Stream
Xero-data, or dust, swarms planetary bodies as the primal flux of data or the Mother of all Data-streams in the Solar system. Each particle of dust carries with it a unique vision of matter, movement, collectivity, interaction,a ffect, differentiation, composition
Dust as Solar Data-Stream
Xero-data, or dust, swarms planetary bodies as the primal flux of data or the Mother of all Data-streams in the Solar system. Each particle of dust carries with it a unique vision of matter, movement, collectivity, interaction,a ffect, differentiation, composition
On Cyclonopedia: Not everything we read is to our liking
Not everything we read is to our liking. These past weeks, I’ve been spending bits of my time wrestling with a mish-mash of Middle Eastern esoterica, Critical Theory, and metaphysical Political Economy called Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials by one
On Cyclonopedia: Not everything we read is to our liking
Not everything we read is to our liking. These past weeks, I’ve been spending bits of my time wrestling with a mish-mash of Middle Eastern esoterica, Critical Theory, and metaphysical Political Economy called Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials by one
Baudrillard the Incorrigible Orientalist
[A]ny genuine consideration of an Iraqi perspective in Baudrillard’s text is almost completely absent. Indeed, it underlines how the absence of such a perspective is a necessary condition for any semantic analysis of the conflict – one can only interpret
Baudrillard the Incorrigible Orientalist
[A]ny genuine consideration of an Iraqi perspective in Baudrillard’s text is almost completely absent. Indeed, it underlines how the absence of such a perspective is a necessary condition for any semantic analysis of the conflict – one can only interpret
(Mis)readings