Spanish galleon to dock in Manila

Spanish galleon to dock in Manila

by Team Emanila

Before the “TITANIC”, there were the GALLEONS, and the Filipinos were on them. And now, everyone has a chance to jump aboard a mighty ship that once ruled the world. From October 5-9, the Philippines will host the Nao Victoria, a 17th century replica of a Galleon. Berthing at the Manila Harbor, guests from all over will be able to view and walk through history. Without fuel and minimal modern technology, the Galleon is almost exactly as it was four hundred years ago. The Philippines will once again claim its glory as one of the centers

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

by Dennis Raymundo March 18, 2010

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.

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

by Dennis Raymundo March 18, 2010

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)”.

Ang mga bukol sa katawan ay hindi pirming bahagi nito. Samakatuwid, tuwing makakakita tayo ng bukol, inaasahan natin na ito’y maglalaho, o di kaya’y hahanap ng paraan upang ito ay mawala. Dahil ang pagkakaroon ng bukol ay laging isang babala na may mas malalim at peligrosong proseso na nagaganap sa ating katawan.

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Why Is the Philippines A Poor Country?

by Jon E. Royeca January 19, 2010

(Part 13 of the “In Defense of the Filipino” series)

THE usual answers to this question are because allegedly we Filipinos are indolent, thieves, corrupt, undisciplined, crab-minded, divided, and more. Let us have the real answers.

Nation’s Debts. The main reason is because a large portion of our national budget goes to paying our foreign and domestic debts, instead of using it to build more roads, highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, housing units, railroads, irrigation, cable lines, and other public works; to raise the salaries and benefits of our public school teachers, policemen, soldiers, and government employees; and to fund more development and poverty-alleviation programs.

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