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Komparatibong Analisis Sa Estetikong Danas Na Hatid Ng Koreanobela At Filipinobela Ayon Sa Mga Pilipinong Manonood, Christine Morit Mar 2026

Komparatibong Analisis Sa Estetikong Danas Na Hatid Ng Koreanobela At Filipinobela Ayon Sa Mga Pilipinong Manonood, Christine Morit

Mabini Review

The paper highlights a thorough discussion of the vast influence and prominence of Korean dramas (Koreanobela) in the Philippines, which has become a central focus among critics in the discourse of film and television. Their rise in popularity has fostered an appreciation for both local and foreign spaces that continue to shape and influence Filipino culture. Although the importation of films from Latin American countries—an influence rooted in Spanish colonization—is not new in the Philippines, the unparalleled appeal of Korean dramas in capturing the attention of Filipino audiences cannot be denied. To identify the reasons behind this fascination, the researcher …


Reworlding The Human: A Review Of Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies In Western Literature, Philosophy And Art, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate Sep 2025

Reworlding The Human: A Review Of Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies In Western Literature, Philosophy And Art, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

Mabini Review

In recent decades, the interdisciplinary encounter between posthumanism and the environmental humanities has engendered rich intellectual terrain for rethinking the status of the human, the function of narrative, and the ethical imperatives of multispecies coexistence. The edited volume Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice (Peter Lang, 2023), curated by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki, contributes significantly to this dialogue. Organized in three thematic sections— “Framing the Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies,” “Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Literature and Art” and “Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Continental Philosophy”—the book weaves a cohesive tapestry that connects speculative fiction, ecological …


Aesthetics Of Mobility: Comparing Singapore’S Changi International Airport And Manila’S Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon Mar 2025

Aesthetics Of Mobility: Comparing Singapore’S Changi International Airport And Manila’S Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon

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Airports as gateways play an important role in our globalized society where intercontinental travel is an everyday occurrence. Airport mobilities have traditionally been measured through managerial and economic concepts. Hence, few scholars considered looking at the physical layout of an airport and how it affects the cultural understanding of passengers through an experience of mobility and efficiency. This paper explores efficiency as: (1) a system, (2) a trope, and (3) a privileged value in two Southeast Asian airports – Singapore’s Changi International Airport and Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport. By analyzing their systems and politics of mobility, I maintain that …


Panimulang Pag-Aaral Sa Visual Framing: Sipat-Suri Sa Mga Piling Youtube Vlogs Ni Jt Ng Motouristas Sa Kaniyang Misyon Na Libot Pilipinas, Princess Gissel Dionela Servo, Lheris May Ople May 2024

Panimulang Pag-Aaral Sa Visual Framing: Sipat-Suri Sa Mga Piling Youtube Vlogs Ni Jt Ng Motouristas Sa Kaniyang Misyon Na Libot Pilipinas, Princess Gissel Dionela Servo, Lheris May Ople

Mabini Review

The nation has been dubbed the “Social Media Capital of the World” (2021) since it leads daily social media usage globally. YouTube is one of the most widely used platforms in the Philippines, and vlogging has contributed to the rise in fame of numerous personalities. Among them was a motorist whose peculiar driving style won him admiration from other drivers. The study will perform a preliminary analysis of the chosen MoTouristas YouTube clips to achieve this. This YouTube video has amassed thousands of followers because of its distinctive approach to helping the nation while on the road. JT, the driver-vlogger, …


A Hegelian Approach To Environmental Philosophy, Mary Sarah Angoluan, Oct 2023

A Hegelian Approach To Environmental Philosophy, Mary Sarah Angoluan,

Mabini Review

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has been known as one of the philosophers that does not promote environmentalism as most of his works were focused on Nature vis-à-vis Spirit implies anthropocentrism. Hegel was considered a champion of the unqualified industrial exploitation of nature. But recently, researchers deemed that Hegel’s philosophy can accommodate the problems related to environmental philosophy. Hence, this paper will focus on the potentiality of Hegel’s use in Environmentalism, in agreement with Nicholas Mowad’s work The Natural World Spirit : Hegel on the Value of Nature (2012), Alison Stone’s work Petrified Intelligence (2005), and Wendell Kisner’s work The Category …


Commodity Fetishism And The Crisis Of Contemporary Art, E. San Juan Jr. Nov 2022

Commodity Fetishism And The Crisis Of Contemporary Art, E. San Juan Jr.

Mabini Review

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Visualizing Community: Images Of Poverty In Aphilippine Rural Community, Joseph Reylan Viray, Raul Roland Sebastian, Nelson Baun, Ronillo Viray Jan 2022

Visualizing Community: Images Of Poverty In Aphilippine Rural Community, Joseph Reylan Viray, Raul Roland Sebastian, Nelson Baun, Ronillo Viray

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The study zeroed in on the perception of college students who are exposed to sights of poverty in their immediate environment. The student-participants were asked to provide their perception, understanding, and behaviour towards poverty using the photographs that they took on their own. In qualitative research practice, this methodology is called photo elicitation. It was revealed, among others, that the participants have shown negative perceptions about poverty. They strongly felt bad about each photograph that they took and what these images portrayed. The participants visualized their community and thereby weaved analyses and opinions that encroached on various philosophical and sociological …


Igorotism And Orientalism:The Photographs Of Eduardo Masferré, Aarichela Dela Cruz Jan 2022

Igorotism And Orientalism:The Photographs Of Eduardo Masferré, Aarichela Dela Cruz

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This paper discusses the Filipino identity and how it is promoted through the branding of Pandayan Bookshop, a locally owned company and has been operating stores selling school and office supplies, books, magazines, posters, charts, and artwork. Using Porter’s value chain model and Rumelt’s principles of business strategy evaluation as underpinnings, the researchers analyzed the processes or activities the company undertakes that include incoming logistics, operations, outgoing logistics, marketing and sales, services, and human resource management. The data revealed that the branding of Pandayan Bookshop marked by its use of the Filipino language reflects Filipinos’ good character, camaraderie, and humanity. …


Rhetorics Of Ecocriticality: The Ecocomposition Of The Selected Poems Of Francis C. Macansantos, Jan Raen Carlo Ledesma Dec 2018

Rhetorics Of Ecocriticality: The Ecocomposition Of The Selected Poems Of Francis C. Macansantos, Jan Raen Carlo Ledesma

Mabini Review

Based on Hubert Zapf’s theory of the “Ecological Force” of Literature and Timothy Morton’s theory of “Ambient Poetics”, this study attempts to flesh out tropes of ecocriticism in the selected poems of Francis C. Macansantos from his collection Snail Fever: Poems of Two Decades (2016). From these theories, Macansantos’ selected poems are revealed to deploy the rhetorics of ecocriticality linking literature to a greater web of discourses concerning nature and the environment. In particular, discourses which are grounded in the interactions of the spheres of culture and nature become, in literary studies, the springboard for fleshing out ecocritical ranges and …


A Change Of Face:Using Graffiti To Re-Imagine Spaces, Luba Pirgova-Morgan Aug 2018

A Change Of Face:Using Graffiti To Re-Imagine Spaces, Luba Pirgova-Morgan

Mabini Review

In much of the literature graffiti is connected to notions of defacing, devaluing, vandalising, participating in an illegal activity or exhibiting ‘anti-social behaviour.’The aim of this paper is to show the change of perceptions toward graffiti as less of an act of vandalism or a criminal activity and more of a solution to many social and political concerns. The paper offers a way to re- frame graffiti as the solution rather then the problem based on a study of graffiti crews in Sofia, Bulgaria. The paper presents three cases of these crews, each attempting to address different social and political …


La Chinoise And Aesthetic Dissensuality, Jesus Emmanuel Villafuerte Aug 2018

La Chinoise And Aesthetic Dissensuality, Jesus Emmanuel Villafuerte

Mabini Review

Jean Luc-Godard and Jacques Ranciere are two of the most important intellectuals of their time— the first is a filmmaker whose films are considered to be some of the best French Cinema has produced, the latter is a philosopher whose works continue to immensely influence the intellectual current of the world. While it can be said that their lives did not intersect, their respective oeuvres are not totally different from each other, in fact, Ranciere in his works on Cinema has continuously referenced the films of Godard in explaining his theoretical concepts, and Godard for his part, although he never …


The Figure Of The Filipino Exile In The Poem “Here” By Conchitina Cruz, Jesus Emmanuel Villafuerte Dec 2017

The Figure Of The Filipino Exile In The Poem “Here” By Conchitina Cruz, Jesus Emmanuel Villafuerte

Mabini Review

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Surviving The Anthropocene Through The Arts, Virgilio Rivas, Jeffrey Bartilet, Jayson Jimenez Dec 2015

Surviving The Anthropocene Through The Arts, Virgilio Rivas, Jeffrey Bartilet, Jayson Jimenez

Mabini Review

We are in the age of disasters, an era of climate change, of extreme and life-threatening weather disturbances, of flash floods and super-typhoons. But we are also in an age of voracious consumption of resources, an era of massive oil and nuclear energy use, an age of wastelands and carbon emissions, an age of steel, of plastic, and concrete, the age of GMOs, of soil alteration and water depletion. This is the age of what recent scholars call the Anthropocene, the era of how the human being becomes a geological agent changing the planet. This is where the project hopes …


Barthes On Writing And Authorship: A Polemical Précis, Virgilio Rivas Dec 2015

Barthes On Writing And Authorship: A Polemical Précis, Virgilio Rivas

Mabini Review

In this paper we will try to revisit Barthes’ brief essay ‘Authors and Writers’ by way of reopening the essay’s proximity to some of the most important theorists of our time, such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, and most especially, Mikhail Bakhtin whose individual writings on issues of language, translation, etc., to cite a few, mesh without conceptual and analytical difficulty. Their insightful provocations are known for their shared intuitive trajectories which altogether radicalize the concept of the writing craft and its complicated relation to the traditional conception of the author. Their writings carve out a common …


The City As A Spectacular Monster And The Hysterical Baudrillardian Flâneur, Gian Carla Agbisit Dec 2015

The City As A Spectacular Monster And The Hysterical Baudrillardian Flâneur, Gian Carla Agbisit

Mabini Review

Propelled by the new kind of capitalism, and aided by a scientific and technological progress that culminates in virtual perfection, the city has now become both the producer and the consumer of spectacle. Caught in a tangle of means and ends, the spectacle that used to be merely an icing of the cake, a tiny ribbon of the dress, a glitter, or a slight shimmer, has become the product to be consumed.


Cyborg Identities And The Posthuman Body, Federico Lagdameo Nov 2013

Cyborg Identities And The Posthuman Body, Federico Lagdameo

Mabini Review

No abstract provided.


Voluntary Urbanism: The Agency Of The City, Michael Oliveira Nov 2013

Voluntary Urbanism: The Agency Of The City, Michael Oliveira

Mabini Review

No abstract provided.


The Poetry Of The Icon:Thinking God’S Essencing With Heidegger And Marion, Adrian Remodo Nov 2013

The Poetry Of The Icon:Thinking God’S Essencing With Heidegger And Marion, Adrian Remodo

Mabini Review

No abstract provided.