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6Permanent Revolution: A Schizoanalytic Philosophy of Therapeutic and Revolutionary TransformationPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 21 (1): 89-112. 2020.In this article, I present a critical exposition of and engagement with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s schizoanalysis, and its therapeutic and revolutionary powers. Firstly, I discuss how the aftermath of the May 1968 phenomenon shapes the formulation of schizoanalysis, specifically, in relation to the French people’s desire for voluntary servitude to what they call as ‘State philosophy.’ More importantly, I discuss desire’s social investment, syntheses, and parallogisms. Secondly, I elucid…Read more
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5Mapping a Precarious Ethics in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Semiocapitalism, the “New” Cognitariat, and ChaosmosisKritike 15 (3): 120-146. 2021.
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15The Experience of Difference: Re-thinking the EDSA Revolution as an Exemplar of Ascending LifeTattva - Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 91-110. 2013.Does talking about the triumph of the 1986 People Power EDSA Revolution still make sense nowadays? When the ideals of this glorious revolution are now nothing but contents of Philippine history textbooks and items of the culture industry, do we still need to re-imagine it? These are some of the reflective questions that will challenge and guide this paper‟s architecture. In what follows, the author will push all the possibilities for a Nietzschean re- thinking of the EDSA Revolution as “ the exp…Read more
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19Deleuze's Bergsonism: Multiplicity, Intuition, and the VirtualKritike 10 (2): 152-190. 2016.This paper aims to explicate Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of Bergsonism. Specifically, I expound on Deleuze’s reconstruction of Bergson’s concepts of intuition, the virtual, and duration. Bergson’s formulation of these concepts is critically informed by traditional science and metaphysics’ insular obsession with quantitative differences, succession, homogeneity etc. In the eyes of Deleuze, this preoccupation redounds to the failure in perceiving real differences— the realm of qualitative differen…Read more
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6Subjugation, Immanent Critique, and Cruz: Adorno on Aesthetics and the Possibility of EmancipationKritike 8 (1): 119-135. 2014.Due to reason’s instrumentalization, the Enlightenment project turned into a myth of domination instead of freeing humanity from barbarism. This dialectic of Enlightenment, as the critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkkeimer put it, destroyed our mimetic relation with nature and privileged the language of modern science and logical positivism over art, among other maladies, philosophical or otherwise. This predicament intensified upon the culture industry’s supremacy in the contemporary …Read more
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11Deleuze contra Hegel: The Rupture of the Dialectics towards Non-Conceptual DifferenceKritike 8 (2): 119-138. 2014.This paper is a brief philosophical analysis of the relationship between G.W.F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy. In the first part, I will present Hegel’s dialectical philosophy as the opus’ point of departure including a truncated elucidation of the totalitarian aspect of his thinking. Since the Hegelian system is very comprehensive, it has also influenced other parts of Europe, especially France. Upon its arrival in the French soil, the system’s structurality was re-attuned in accordance…Read more
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11The Revolutionary Spinoza: Immanence, Ethology, and the Politic of DesireKritike 11 (1): 197-217. 2017.
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |