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| (Mis)readings |
| (Mis)readings is a blog featuring observations on passing events, books, and ideas from the vantage point of the author. It is in short nothing more than the conceit of the author raising its ugly head online to propagate unlettered opinions to a public audience. |
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| Literature as Spectacle |
| 2011-11-18 10:00:47 |
The literary world is no longer a space of contemplation, subversion, spiritually enriching escapism, or discovery, but one of spectacle. Nor is the book any longer “the temple of the soul” —it is a bare bummed product little different from a bottle of Coca Cola. Writers can be ticket holders in the lottery, daydreamers, clued-up [...]...
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| My First Transport Strike |
| 2011-11-13 10:00:32 |
I wrote the following five years ago, after joining my first transport strike: A whole-page advertisement in a national broadsheet screaming the non-existence of an oil cartel greeted my Monday morning. And apt enough, as if in answer, I passed by people massing up by main thoroughfares as I headed for school. They were part [...]...
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| The State of Journalism |
| 2011-11-10 10:00:59 |
“The Eastern Anatolian press is in desperate trouble. Our average Kars citizen doesn’t bother to read the paper. Almost all our subscribers are government office. So of course we’re going to run the sort of news our subscribers want to read. All over the world – even in America – newspapers tailor the news to [...]...
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| #OccupyWallStreet and the Return of Class Struggle |
| 2011-11-07 10:00:10 |
That more and more people across the U.S. are beginning to consciously recognize themselves as part of the exploited 99% and see the need for deep changes in the way the world economy is run in favor of the elite 1% is in itself a breakthrough. For decades, the belief in the “American Dream,” the [...]...
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| The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Western Hegemony |
| 2011-10-25 18:45:23 |
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 and gas, while supporting Israel’s ongoing colonization of Palestine. The means by which imperial control [...]...
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| Tumandok epic: The Panay indigenous people’s struggle for land |
| 2011-10-25 00:55:17 |
“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 a justification of an unjust social order or nostalgia for a fictitious past, but as [...]...
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| The End of the Game |
| 2011-10-23 11:00:49 |
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 author Julio Cortazar. Started reading the book (but always only in the library, which is [...]...
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| Taibo: Returning as Shadows |
| 2011-10-21 11:21:41 |
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 that fail to gel together into a more coherent story. One gets a sense that [...]...
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| Book Trailers and Murakami’s IQ84 |
| 2011-10-18 11:03:22 |
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 new and certainly not surprising considering the consumerist ethos of our age. Books are sold [...]...
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| Bullets and Modernization |
| 2011-10-14 11:00:10 |
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 progress. If heat is, in current megalopolises, an indicator and an existential proof of the [...]...
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