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To Think About the Future is to Arrive at a Decision
This piece is a mildly revised version of an essay that appeared in the 2023 issue of UP Cinema’s Kino Punch magazine which theme revolves around Fate and Future.
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Breaking the Glass Air
There is no salvation in the saying of words –But what weapon do we useagainst that which oppresses & chokes?Silence overwhelmsbut we must keep on inventing the wordthat will smashthe thick glass of air between us.Edel Garcellano, “Words” There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript…
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How do you live?; or, Miyazaki contra Lynch
(This is more of a Note than a “review”. Again, a “diary log” that probably makes sense to me the most than to you. Don’t read this if you do not care about the things that I do. And this text will have a really weird and often unfair comparison between this movie and David…
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On Postmodernism
These are the lecture notes I prepared back when I handled a Reading Visual Arts class early last year. The actual lecture happened on March 29, 2019. Since this is a lecture note, I did not attempt to add any “new” insights on the subject matter. This is a plain general review of ideas on…
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We March Along with the Future
Scattered throughout the writings of the late Mark Fisher is this concept of lost future identified with a stasis buried behind “a superficial frenzy of ‘newness’, of perpetual movement.” This is in agreement with Franco Berardi’s declaration of the slow cancellation of the future as experienced by the psyche in the cultural superstructure. Fisher did…
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Marginal Notes on Cinema and Nation
As our Film 240 class wrapped-up earlier, I’m still trying to come into terms of how should I approach the topic of both Cinema and Nation. Prof. Deocampo said to me that the way I wanted to approach my topic, which is Cinema under the Aquino Administration, is something most students (if I heard him…
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Notes on Godzilla Resurgence and Love & Peace
Godzilla Resurgence (left); Love & Peace (right) Two sides of the same sentiment, but of different political position. Both has something to do with United States’ Nuclear Terror attack back in 1945. Both uses the Kaiju as a metaphor to the Nuclear bomb. First, Hideaki Anno’s and Shinji Higuchi’s Godzilla Resurgence (2016) as outright rightist,…