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A Brief Reply to a Long Comment On Žižek1 comment

karlo mikhail wrote 1 week ago: This is a reply to comment by Mr. Alex Reynolds in a previous blog entry explaining my position as a … more →

Tags: Icons, Adorno, Catherine Belsey, Clarity, Common Sense, critical practice, e. san juan jr., Edel Garcellano, Horkheimer

For the Love of Žižek: a Fan’s Confession16 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 1 month ago: We believe that feelings are immutable, but every sentiment, particularly the noblest and most disin … more →

Tags: Icons, Política, capitalism, Foucault, Ideology, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Power, Résistance

Babae / Woman

karlo mikhail wrote 1 month ago: I remember the second time I visited SM City Iloilo this year quite vividly for the simple reason th … more →

Tags: Music, Política, babae, capitalism, de Beauvoir, Feminism, feminist, gender role, Inang Laya

On This Reproductive System Where I’m Blissfully Stuck Now

karlo mikhail wrote 1 month ago: Not only do we find in the uneasy transitions of organisms engaged in reproduction the same basic vi … more →

Tags: Política, Althusser, Bataille, Bourdieu, Butler, Education, Empire, Georges Bataille, Hardt

Review: 'Ivy' photographs by Jane Burton at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne1 comment

bunyanth wrote 2 months ago: Exhibition dates: 2nd September – 26th September 2009 . . Jane Burton ‘Ivy #1′ 200 … more →

Tags: Australian Artist, Colour Photography, Eugene Atget, Exhibition, Existence, gallery website, intimacy, Josef Sudek, Melbourne

Hasa: A Different Kind of Pageant?3 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 2 months ago: The Philippines is a country obsessed with beauty contests. This mania goes not only for pageants fo … more →

Tags: Política, Philippines, sex, Slavoj Zizek, zizek, Carnivalesque, Popular Culture, upv, University of the Philippines

Nobody, Nobody But You?

karlo mikhail wrote 2 months ago: If the human reality is a social reality, society is human only as a set of Desires mutually desirin … more →

Tags: Music, Alexandre Kojève, cultural studies, cultural theory, desire, Fantasy, Jacques Lacan, Kojève, Lacan

Liberalism and Fascism

karlo mikhail wrote 3 months ago: There are two different modes of ideological mystification which should in no way be confused: the l … more →

Tags: escritura, Política, Slavoj Zizek, zizek, Ideology, Quotes, Zizek Quotes, Ideological Mystification, Fascism

The Death of the Father

karlo mikhail wrote 3 months ago: Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a novel that gives the reader remarkable insigh … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Yukio Mishima, Mishima, Japan, Japanese Literature, Oedipus Complex, Father, father-figure

Revealing Orthodoxy - 10

sowingseedsoforthodoxy wrote 3 months ago:   The Difference between Orthodox Spirituality and Other Traditions (from Chapter 2, Orthodox Spirit … more →

Tags: Christian Orthodox faith, God, Holy Fathers, Scriptures!, Holy Spirit, Roman Catholicism, St. John Chrysostom, theois, St Gregory Palamas

The Tragedy of Macbeth: Shakespeare and Polanski1 comment

karlo mikhail wrote 3 months ago: Historical events has often provided literary producers material for their written works. In the cas … more →

Tags: Books, Historia, films, History, film, Roman Polanski, Cinema, Polanski, Shakespeare

Circumcision, Text Messaging, the Guillotine and Photography13 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 3 months ago: In one of my classes, our professor pointed out a structural parallelism between the traditional pra … more →

Tags: penis, Photography, Structuralism, camera, Circumcision, text messaging, Cropping, Beheading, guillotine

Norton Anthology of English Literature3 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 4 months ago: A The New York Review of Ideas article looks at the controversy surrounding the history of the textb … more →

Tags: Books, anthology, Controversy, English Literature, History, Literature, Norton, norton anthology of english literature

Cute Asian Poses2 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 4 months ago: I came by the asianposes.com blog via Frances in facebook. What I found fascinating, apart from the … more →

Tags: Ephemera, media, Asian Poses, Poses, gestures, Popular Culture, cultural studies, Asia, anime

Earths core and crust is fueled by gas and oil?

zofty wrote 4 months ago: What happens if the earth will run out of gas and oil? What is the impact of gas and oil for the ear … more →

Tags: Theories

Literature?12 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 4 months ago: It has always been a convention with an old friend to ask me a question about the criteria for award … more →

Tags: mao, Literature, language, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Literary Awards, Ideology, Terry Eagleton, What is Literature?

Gravity at the jurassic era.

zofty wrote 4 months ago: The globe is a very complex place. I started thinking about the time when dinosaurs lived. The dinos … more →

Tags: Theories

A Case of Interpassive Reading1 comment

karlo mikhail wrote 5 months ago: I have always been a voracious reader. I read anything I can lay my hands: from novels to religious … more →

Tags: bibliophilia, Books, eBooks, Interpassive, interpassivity, Reading, slavoj, zizek

A Very Brief History of My Blogging Experience 3 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 5 months ago: Last May, I pointed out that I may have fewer posts in lieu of my return to the university. Perhaps … more →

Tags: My Life, Blogging, Misreadings, Reading, writing, blogs, Tech, Karlo Mikhail Mongaya, Friendster


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