I was asked to give a tribute to Ka Edel Garcellano who was a personal hero to many, a great teacher, and an important, if not the most important literary critic of our time. (The latter’s description is not mine, but I wish I had said it). Despite the privilege of having sat in […]

I believe it’s not only the ‘introduction of bias’ that characterizes one of the major drawbacks of self-evolving machine algorithms but also the fact such machines can only operate in a local field, a point of inhibited activity of infinite evolution itself. Machine intelligence, which here surpasses human intelligence, will just the same instance of […]

Lessons from stressed islands and island assemblages in archipelagic Southeast Asia and other transversals DOI: 10.21463/shima.13.2.09] Virgilio A. Rivas Polytechnic University of the Philippines <varivas@pup.edu.ph> ABSTRACT: In Desert Islands (2004) Deleuze discussed the concept of second origin and how a people’s second birth is borne out by its transversal becoming as an island assemblage. Today, […]

As usual Terence Blake hit it. https://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/logical-grammar-vs-unrevisable-concepts-agamben-the-covid-19-virus-and-the-leap-of-logic/?fbclid=IwAR0h7-oBdY9qbwPaFTv8QxMbhnW0ZSx6fOpNRGQ_UkrqjlHU55s2hNkwoNA I can’t believe Agamben would really go to this length explaining his opinion after opinion of the same opinion that’s all obviously inside a bubble. He can’t see a clear demarcation between a democray that’s existing or being practiced (in Western or non-Western environments) versus his idea of […]

‘Remember, this is the third decade of the Apocalypse’ The taxi window gave away the hard labor of the sidewalk, the combined weight of hundreds of wingless shells it carried from end to end, supported by foam crates loaned from the only polystyrene storehouse in the south end of the city. On […]

I. Science fiction (scifi) constructs imaginaries that paint a utopian promise or warn of dystopias to come. Corona surprises all these imaginaries. With the virus, the future has arrived without its novelist, its fictionist, its poet and seer, without its thinker, its sensorimotor predictor, without empiricism. Perhaps even the climate crisis that came before […]

“….At the heart of the city’s biggest square where the funeral swarm was expected to camp out, a large bonfire was lit to the deafening roars of an eager front crowd, how they broke their silence was a ritual invented almost as instantly as they stepped into what they took to be the main entrance, […]

Todd Phillip’s Joker is a film about class war in utero. The film sets the stage for a coming political world in which the class war in Gotham has been named and elevated to the undeniable antagonism that situates the injustice of society. The film is also a psychobiography of an antihero’s journey into this… […]