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If the rumour circulating turns out to be true, this might be the last Kinutil for a while. I am talking, of course, about the rumour of an impending declaration of a revolutionary government in our country.…
All this discussion about truth, facts and fake news, show us how truly tenuous the line of reality really is for us: As when I woke up the other day to news that the world was in…
The point of education is to teach, of course. And what else can be taught but what the teacher knows? But for the good teacher, there is one something more important than this. The good teacher ought…
I remember going to confession the same day Fr. Rudy Romano disappeared never again to be found. I was writing freelance for the Union of Catholic Asia News at that time. Fr. Rudy disappeared on July 11,…
A lecture inside a workshop, a photoshoot I need to be in. The rush of life, an appointed time and place, time growing shorter by the second. The place, still far away. Traffic grinds to a halt.…
Used to be that only a few academics of a specialized knowledge in the fields of information and linguistics concerned themselves with signs and symbols, and how they worked in constructing meaning and the illusion of truth…
And how else can it be but that power is a language best spoken without words? Or, if words are inescapable, then they must be words spoken secretly, sub rosa, under the table — if that is…
Who is the ruling class? Are we part of the ruling class? If we are reading this, we cannot be poor. Or at least not as poor as those who cannot read or cannot be reading this.…
I am watching clothes tumbling in the machines at the laundromat. I can see the clothes because the washing machines have half globular windows through which one might gaze at the whole process. The purist functionalist designer…
More than a decade ago, a friend and co-teacher who recently returned from a PhD program in UP Diliman told me, “Everything is text.” I was quite incredulous. I have been a visual artist for as long…
Honpanaligidli,” is a word my father taught me. Venancio J. Fernandez pointed to me the word as a cautionary signifier for those in power. Otherwise, the word is a curse uttered under one’s breathe at one’s oppressors.…
Young people teach me about gaming the system. That it’s all about understanding how the system works; finding out the intricacy of its rules, its architecture; and once having understood these, knowing how to use this to…
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