Nasaan na ang dekada 1970, nang ang mga makata’y nag-ambag nang malaki sa pagtatanggal ng kultural na suporta ng madla sa isang pasistang rehimeng tinangkilik ng isang banyagang pamahalaan? Nasaan na ang mga dekada 1920 at 1930, nang ang mga kagaya nina Jose Corazon de Jesus at Amado V. Hernandez ay gumanap ng malaking papel sa pagpapalaganap ng anti-kolonyal na kaisipan?
Posted by Alexander Martin Remollino, 16 Sep 2007 Full Article...
Being an effective "panganay" instills in the younger siblings and peers the virtues necessary to live a full and worthwhile existence.
Posted by Ramon Loyola, 22 Jan 2007 Full Article...
Six months on, I am still in a Manila state of mind, thinking it is the way that the city has touched me again after all these years of being a jaded expat. It has re-imbibed itself in me a new sense of belonging, something that I have never felt after all these years of living in another city.
Posted by Ramon Loyola, 02 Jul 2006 Full Article...
I’d taken an obsessive curiosity in supermarkets, lately. If you think about it, the supermarket --- the modern-day façade of the corner store, the mega incarnation of the convenience store just ‘round the corner --- is a microcosm of the city teeming with the urbane mixing with the plebeian.
Posted by Ramon Loyola, 15 May 2006 Full Article...
It is thus a logical impossibility to think of art as apart from ideology. Society is part and parcel of human life since all humans are part of society, and whatever aspect of life an artist chooses to depict speaks of how he looks at the way society is ordered.
Posted by Alexander Martin Remollino, 30 Apr 2006 Full Article...
