Paano kung ang lumilitaw ngayon bilang isang makapangyarihang larawan ng bansa ay hindi na ang anyo ng isang pamilyar na nilalang (katulad ng larawan ng isang mahal na ina, sa metapora ng ‘Inang Bayan’) kundi ang anyo ng isang multo? Ito ang nakakatawag-pansing proposisyon ng akdang ito (na nasa larangan ng natawag na post-colonial studies), [...]
Read the rest of this entry »[Brett Buchanan, Onto-ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleu-Ponty, and Deleuze (2008)] Tinalakay sa akdang ito (na magandang ikumpara sa akdang Zoogeographies) ang ilan pang pilosopikal na pundasyon nitong emergent discipline na tinatawag na animal studies o human-animal studies. Isa sa napaka-interesanteng palaisip at bayolohista sa larangang ito ang Alemang si Jacob von Uexkull, [...]
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Despairing of the reality of things and totally certain of their nullity, they, without any further ado, simply help themselves to them and devour them. [Hegel]
We have come to see tomorrow
We have given up today
Down among the dancing quanta
Up above in Transverse City
Here's the witness and the victim
Here's the relatives' remains
Here's the well-known double helix
Here's the poisoned waves of grain
Here's the song of shear and torsion
Here's the bloodbath magazine
Here's the harvest of contusions
Here's the narcoleptic dream
[Warren Zevon]
