A Reaction to Patrick Flores’ Teaching/Learning the Humanities in Other Words/Worlds

This particular essay on art is not looking at an artwork. Rather, it problematizes the way we think of art as an element of culture. The epigraphs by Octavio Paz and Robert Barry challenge the way we commonsensically think of art. And this is what the whole essay allows us to (re)think: Our ways of seeing art and the conditions of possibility of our gaze.

Octavio Paz’s statement on the iconic status of art objects that “command our adoration” is precisely what the essay explains as symbolic violence. Symbolic violence as the essay suggests, stems from the condition that art is produced in a society where there is hierarchy. However, it wasn’t quite clear how hierarchy is produced and reproduced in society.

Rebyu ng Sakit ng Kalingkingan: 100 Dagli sa Edad ng Krisis ni Rolando Tolentino

Sa aklat niyang The Significance of Theory, inilarawan ni Terry Eagleton ang teorya: “Like small lumps in the neck, it is a symptom that all is not well (1990:26)”.

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Magsisi ka man at huli wala nang mangyayari.

English (Loose translation): There is no point blaming yourself for something that has happened in the past.

Explanation: The truth is you cannot regret something that has yet to happen. Regret is always related to a past event, action or decision. But there is no benefit in blaming oneself for things that you cannot change any longer. One has to move on.

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Huli man daw at magaling, naihahabol din.

English: Better late than never.

Explanation: No explanation required.