December 2010
3 posts
Speculations: 'hipsters'
There are ideas floating out there that ‘hipsters’ are the contemporary manifestation of ‘hippies’. I’m not quite sure if this is a proper fit, however. If one were to think about what a ‘hipster’ is and why it is there is so much vitriolic disdain for ‘hipsters’ it is perhaps because the ‘hipster’ is oftentimes imaged as a...
Secular Philippines
As I walked onto the Ateneo campus today, I noticed a most curious thing. Everyone had suddenly stopped in their tracks. I, of course, kept walking since I wasn’t quite sure what prompted everyone to stop. I then heard a faint recorded choral singing of the first verse of the Philippine national anthem “Lupang Hinirang.” People continued to look around blankly waiting for the...
from Roland Barthes' A Lovers' Discourse,...
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I only love one. The other with whom I am in love designates for me the specialty of my desire. (19)
November 2010
2 posts
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
18 posts
Questions from John Torres’ Ang Ninanais: Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song
How does one approach a dream? Or more than that, a dream that persists, that lingers, is constant, and recurring. How does one approach a dream that attempts to translate one’s desires? What controls what? Do these urges and compulsions in our dream life bleed into our waking life? Or do our waking...
July 2010
7 posts
Watchouttake post Ang Ninanais in front of CCP 12.07.2010
