The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender; and Queer (LGBTQ) History is the ... more The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender; and Queer (LGBTQ) History is the product of two years of focused labor by hundreds of researchers and editors. The ambitious three-volume set; composed of nearly 450 commissioned articles and sidebars; reflects how the field of LGBTQ studies has engaged with social campaigns for equality; freedom; justice and liberation worldwide since the 1970s.That queer experience can be located across diverse regional; national and global contexts and at different points in time is perhaps the most ordinary feature of human existence. The editorial board was thus tasked with adding intellectual rigor; political color; cultural vibrancy and social relevance to this seemingly mundane observation. Initially conceived as a global companion to Scribner___s Encyclopedia of Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; and Transgender History in America (2004); the Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History quickly became a different kind of intellectual pursuit. Whi...
This Introduction to "Nick Joaquin Now: Texts, Contexts and Approaches" surveys the main critical... more This Introduction to "Nick Joaquin Now: Texts, Contexts and Approaches" surveys the main critical works on Nick Joaquin's oeuvre and presents an overview of the essays included in this Forum Kritika. Following the contributions of scholars such as Blanco, E.
It is the summer of the pandemic and protests for police abolition. It is the summer of horror an... more It is the summer of the pandemic and protests for police abolition. It is the summer of horror and hope. In the streets of Toronto, Berlin, Auckland, Copenhagen and Antwerp, the young and the old march for racial justice while wearing masks for protection against the dreaded Covid-19 virus that has infected more than 11.6 million people around the world. In the U.S., the premature deaths of Black men and women in the hands of the police reignite the American protests against the horror of police killings. In New York City, thousands march in the warm evenings led by young Black and queer activists. They camp out in front of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s mansion holding signs: “Black Lives Matter,” “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and “Abolish I.C.E.” In the sweltering evenings, citizens curse under their breaths as firecrackers explode in the dead of the night, interrupting precious sleep. Rumors swirl that the NYPD is behind the sale of the firecrackers, a tactic to tire out and punish New Yorkers demanding the end of prisons and the police. In New York City, church-based immigrant rights groups and Filipino American journalists organized an online webinar against a different but similar kind of state violence. The event, State Terrorism: The Philippine Experience, was attended by close to a hundred participants and featured Manila-based writer Carlos Conde of Human Rights Watch, veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona of the beleaguered ABS-CBN, and human rights lawyer Neri Colmenares. The event marked the passage of a new law created by the Duterte government, the Anti-Terror Bill. The law appoints a council of Philippine government officials to arrest anyone suspected of being a “terrorist,” and the vagueness of who can be defined and charged as a terrorist makes the law frightening. The law permits the surveillance and wiretap of citizens by the police and the military for 90 days. The new law, says Neri Colmenares, abolishes the protections enshrined in the 1987 Philippine Constitution by not requiring warrants for arrest, and those arrested for “terrorism” could be kept in jail for 24 days. Filipinos in the Philippines and around the globe condemn the new law as a weapon that targets Duterte’s critics, incarcerates his perceived “enemies,” muzzles free speech, and intensifies a climate of fear that began with Duterte’s “war” against drugs. Rather than propose a comprehensive plan for mass testing or national economic projects to aid the poor affected by the pandemic and the quarantine, the Duterte government rushed the passing of the Anti-Terror Bill. The new law continues the old ways of the Duterte state: kill law-breakers. Since May 2016, the Duterte government’s violent “drug war” has claimed the lives of more than 30,000 Filipinos. Most are men, women and children from the slums of Philippine cities. The corpses of the dead bear the marks of torture — bleeding cuts, blue-black bruises from repeated beatings, wounded wrists from handcuffs. The police claim they were killed in shoot-outs, “Nanlaban (they fought back),” or they deserved death as “drug users” and criminals. Some of the dead are found with duct tape covering their heads, so that identifying them is impossible. These extrajudicial killings, described by scholars as a “genocide of the poor,” continue in the pandemic. Bodies and pools of blood appear on the city streets, and the human remains look like the victims of flesh-eating monsters we call aswang
The late art critic John Berger said that photography always flirts with death because it stops t... more The late art critic John Berger said that photography always flirts with death because it stops the flow of life. And in Raffy Lerma’s photograph of Kian Lloyd Delos Santos lying in a coffin with a chick pecking at its glass pane, this flirtation becomes interminable, a constant play of sound and death. The chick’s pecking is unceasing, long, and acute. This Filipino custom is meant to shame the killers of the deceased, so the chick “pecks” at their conscience. On one hand, a feeling of indignation is evoked but as the number of killings rise, and the photographs become all too familiar, our senses are dulled. Kian’s death may have sparked a nation-wide condemnation of Duterte’s war on drugs, as this happened during a bloody week of police operations and extrajudicial killings from August 14 to 18, 2017. At least 81 people were killed nationwide. However, at the same time, these reports and photographs were also being used by the state to justify their drive to clean up, to make the streets safe of drug users and pushers, telling us that the likes of Kian are the enemies, the real menace, the ones that have to be eradicated. At first such news can be shocking but soon, we accept and rationalize this state-sponsored violence
Building information modeling (BIM) is one of the most promising developments. It has become a si... more Building information modeling (BIM) is one of the most promising developments. It has become a significant area of endeavor in the engineering, construction, and can be used for planning and construction. The models generated from BIM are being used for analysis and design of buildings and other infrastructure. It helps engineers visualize what is to be built in a simulated environment to identify any potential design, construction, or operational issues. Also, the ability to analysis cost and schedule data in the design process makes BIM a very useful tool. The findings of this study provide useful information for people considering implementing BIM technology in their projects. In this paper, introduction, benefits, and future challenges of BIM are discussed.
This article is a textual analysis of two short stories of Pedro S. Dandan who has articulated fo... more This article is a textual analysis of two short stories of Pedro S. Dandan who has articulated for Filipinos their political unconscious against the onslaught of colonial domination. In his works we read how Filipinos confront socio-political problems of war, squatting, poverty in everyday lives. Since most of his stories depict Manila in its early phase of urbanization, it is interesting to note how such stories offer a crucial perspective to the real socio-political problems we are still experiencing today. Reading his works in light of our contemporary problems will reveal the various interplay of forces of control and resistance. Dandan's short stories narrativize these forces and allow us to see how problems are assessed and reassessed. Conveniently, Dandan's stories are narrativization of our roles as subjects in a continued effort for improvement and further emancipation. In the works of Dandan, we pose also the question of who we are in relation to this domination and how we can recognize ourselves as agents of transformation in our society. These articulations have generative resonances to our own real situation and condition. In this paper, Intramuros is not only a convenient setting in Dandan's stories, rather Intramuros becomes the narrative of Filipinos' colonial experience and counter-colonial sentiments.
... Surprised about the old man's writing, Ibarra is told by Pilosopo Tasio that future read... more ... Surprised about the old man's writing, Ibarra is told by Pilosopo Tasio that future readers will be more ... Similarly, such continuous transmission has already been at work with Balagtas' Florante at Laura, since the author used Castilian words as well as references to Classical ...
The book The Promise of the Foreign is without doubt well-written and contributes to our understa... more The book The Promise of the Foreign is without doubt well-written and contributes to our understanding of the fundamental assumptions informing nationalist discourse, as well as the contradictions and complex realities at work in Philippine society. However, the book is arguably silent on how such translation can also be radicalized into an ethical technology or strategic pedagogy such that the foreign within various socio-political sites of analysis like the natives, masses, the Chinese are not just regarded as contaminations between the Philippines and the outside but rather as ambiguities that create the conditions of possibility of the nation-state and its efficacy as a symbolic and political force in everyday life.
The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender; and Queer (LGBTQ) History is the ... more The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender; and Queer (LGBTQ) History is the product of two years of focused labor by hundreds of researchers and editors. The ambitious three-volume set; composed of nearly 450 commissioned articles and sidebars; reflects how the field of LGBTQ studies has engaged with social campaigns for equality; freedom; justice and liberation worldwide since the 1970s.That queer experience can be located across diverse regional; national and global contexts and at different points in time is perhaps the most ordinary feature of human existence. The editorial board was thus tasked with adding intellectual rigor; political color; cultural vibrancy and social relevance to this seemingly mundane observation. Initially conceived as a global companion to Scribner___s Encyclopedia of Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; and Transgender History in America (2004); the Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History quickly became a different kind of intellectual pursuit. Whi...
This Introduction to "Nick Joaquin Now: Texts, Contexts and Approaches" surveys the main critical... more This Introduction to "Nick Joaquin Now: Texts, Contexts and Approaches" surveys the main critical works on Nick Joaquin's oeuvre and presents an overview of the essays included in this Forum Kritika. Following the contributions of scholars such as Blanco, E.
It is the summer of the pandemic and protests for police abolition. It is the summer of horror an... more It is the summer of the pandemic and protests for police abolition. It is the summer of horror and hope. In the streets of Toronto, Berlin, Auckland, Copenhagen and Antwerp, the young and the old march for racial justice while wearing masks for protection against the dreaded Covid-19 virus that has infected more than 11.6 million people around the world. In the U.S., the premature deaths of Black men and women in the hands of the police reignite the American protests against the horror of police killings. In New York City, thousands march in the warm evenings led by young Black and queer activists. They camp out in front of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s mansion holding signs: “Black Lives Matter,” “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and “Abolish I.C.E.” In the sweltering evenings, citizens curse under their breaths as firecrackers explode in the dead of the night, interrupting precious sleep. Rumors swirl that the NYPD is behind the sale of the firecrackers, a tactic to tire out and punish New Yorkers demanding the end of prisons and the police. In New York City, church-based immigrant rights groups and Filipino American journalists organized an online webinar against a different but similar kind of state violence. The event, State Terrorism: The Philippine Experience, was attended by close to a hundred participants and featured Manila-based writer Carlos Conde of Human Rights Watch, veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona of the beleaguered ABS-CBN, and human rights lawyer Neri Colmenares. The event marked the passage of a new law created by the Duterte government, the Anti-Terror Bill. The law appoints a council of Philippine government officials to arrest anyone suspected of being a “terrorist,” and the vagueness of who can be defined and charged as a terrorist makes the law frightening. The law permits the surveillance and wiretap of citizens by the police and the military for 90 days. The new law, says Neri Colmenares, abolishes the protections enshrined in the 1987 Philippine Constitution by not requiring warrants for arrest, and those arrested for “terrorism” could be kept in jail for 24 days. Filipinos in the Philippines and around the globe condemn the new law as a weapon that targets Duterte’s critics, incarcerates his perceived “enemies,” muzzles free speech, and intensifies a climate of fear that began with Duterte’s “war” against drugs. Rather than propose a comprehensive plan for mass testing or national economic projects to aid the poor affected by the pandemic and the quarantine, the Duterte government rushed the passing of the Anti-Terror Bill. The new law continues the old ways of the Duterte state: kill law-breakers. Since May 2016, the Duterte government’s violent “drug war” has claimed the lives of more than 30,000 Filipinos. Most are men, women and children from the slums of Philippine cities. The corpses of the dead bear the marks of torture — bleeding cuts, blue-black bruises from repeated beatings, wounded wrists from handcuffs. The police claim they were killed in shoot-outs, “Nanlaban (they fought back),” or they deserved death as “drug users” and criminals. Some of the dead are found with duct tape covering their heads, so that identifying them is impossible. These extrajudicial killings, described by scholars as a “genocide of the poor,” continue in the pandemic. Bodies and pools of blood appear on the city streets, and the human remains look like the victims of flesh-eating monsters we call aswang
The late art critic John Berger said that photography always flirts with death because it stops t... more The late art critic John Berger said that photography always flirts with death because it stops the flow of life. And in Raffy Lerma’s photograph of Kian Lloyd Delos Santos lying in a coffin with a chick pecking at its glass pane, this flirtation becomes interminable, a constant play of sound and death. The chick’s pecking is unceasing, long, and acute. This Filipino custom is meant to shame the killers of the deceased, so the chick “pecks” at their conscience. On one hand, a feeling of indignation is evoked but as the number of killings rise, and the photographs become all too familiar, our senses are dulled. Kian’s death may have sparked a nation-wide condemnation of Duterte’s war on drugs, as this happened during a bloody week of police operations and extrajudicial killings from August 14 to 18, 2017. At least 81 people were killed nationwide. However, at the same time, these reports and photographs were also being used by the state to justify their drive to clean up, to make the streets safe of drug users and pushers, telling us that the likes of Kian are the enemies, the real menace, the ones that have to be eradicated. At first such news can be shocking but soon, we accept and rationalize this state-sponsored violence
Building information modeling (BIM) is one of the most promising developments. It has become a si... more Building information modeling (BIM) is one of the most promising developments. It has become a significant area of endeavor in the engineering, construction, and can be used for planning and construction. The models generated from BIM are being used for analysis and design of buildings and other infrastructure. It helps engineers visualize what is to be built in a simulated environment to identify any potential design, construction, or operational issues. Also, the ability to analysis cost and schedule data in the design process makes BIM a very useful tool. The findings of this study provide useful information for people considering implementing BIM technology in their projects. In this paper, introduction, benefits, and future challenges of BIM are discussed.
This article is a textual analysis of two short stories of Pedro S. Dandan who has articulated fo... more This article is a textual analysis of two short stories of Pedro S. Dandan who has articulated for Filipinos their political unconscious against the onslaught of colonial domination. In his works we read how Filipinos confront socio-political problems of war, squatting, poverty in everyday lives. Since most of his stories depict Manila in its early phase of urbanization, it is interesting to note how such stories offer a crucial perspective to the real socio-political problems we are still experiencing today. Reading his works in light of our contemporary problems will reveal the various interplay of forces of control and resistance. Dandan's short stories narrativize these forces and allow us to see how problems are assessed and reassessed. Conveniently, Dandan's stories are narrativization of our roles as subjects in a continued effort for improvement and further emancipation. In the works of Dandan, we pose also the question of who we are in relation to this domination and how we can recognize ourselves as agents of transformation in our society. These articulations have generative resonances to our own real situation and condition. In this paper, Intramuros is not only a convenient setting in Dandan's stories, rather Intramuros becomes the narrative of Filipinos' colonial experience and counter-colonial sentiments.
... Surprised about the old man's writing, Ibarra is told by Pilosopo Tasio that future read... more ... Surprised about the old man's writing, Ibarra is told by Pilosopo Tasio that future readers will be more ... Similarly, such continuous transmission has already been at work with Balagtas' Florante at Laura, since the author used Castilian words as well as references to Classical ...
The book The Promise of the Foreign is without doubt well-written and contributes to our understa... more The book The Promise of the Foreign is without doubt well-written and contributes to our understanding of the fundamental assumptions informing nationalist discourse, as well as the contradictions and complex realities at work in Philippine society. However, the book is arguably silent on how such translation can also be radicalized into an ethical technology or strategic pedagogy such that the foreign within various socio-political sites of analysis like the natives, masses, the Chinese are not just regarded as contaminations between the Philippines and the outside but rather as ambiguities that create the conditions of possibility of the nation-state and its efficacy as a symbolic and political force in everyday life.
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