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(Mis)readings
http://karlomongaya.wordpress.com
(Mis)readings is a blog featuring counterobservations on events and texts from the vantage point of an eccentric, optically inconvenienced, and culturally dispossessed resident from the Southern Philippines. It is in short nothing more than the conceit of the blog’s author raising its ugly head online to propagate unlettered opinions to a public audience. â–
- Added on: Sep 3rd, 2008
- Country: Philippines
- Language: English
- Author: Karlo Mongaya
- Listed in: Politics Books
- Tags: politics books literature philosophy philippines philippine politics
Recent Posts
Some Sort of Summing Up
Earlier this year, I promised myself to read or at least get myself copies of certain books before the year ends. I’ve read some of them. But shifting interests made me change the prioritization of the reading of some titles. Not a single title...
The Narcissism of Love Letters
[A] subject who writes love-letters actually does not address the beloved but writes letters to none other than himself. No matter how much a lover tries to capture in the letter the essence of his beloved, he is primarily addressing himself, i.e. he...
Tumpak!
[A] subject who writes love-letters actually does not address the beloved but writes letters to none other than himself. No matter how much a lover tries to capture in the letter the essence of his beloved, he is primarily addressing himself, i.e. he...
On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme
Jose Ortega y Gasset’s On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme is a collection of essays on love. Since it was published in the first half of the last century, the book is dated. Reading it made me realize the speed in which the World has changed. But t...
A Brief Reply to a Long Comment On Žižek
This is a reply to comment by Mr. Alex Reynolds in a previous blog entry explaining my position as a fan of the Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The introduction to the said blog entry was, of course, something of a joke, a play on the pos...
Tears in the Darkness
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman’s Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath is described by the Publishers Weekly as “a gripping narrative of the 1942 battle for the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines,â€...
