Buy.ology: the Truths and Lies about Buying and Reading in the Postmodern Consumer Culture

Reading a book is an essentially healthful chore for the mindful and the critical. When a reader flips on a book with the consciousness of being informed by it, the result is extension of knowledge. Off guard, reading a book without gate-keeping consciousness, the reader becomes a prey to the explicit and implicit consciousness that [...]

Dramaturgical Narrative of the Manila Hostage Crisis

August 23, 2010. Manila. All that were in the news from this morning until 9 pm was the continuing drama in Qurino grandstand, where a Police Senior Inspector, 55 year old Rolando Mendoza held a tourist bus with 22 foreign passengers captive to draw attention and express his sentiment over the decision made to remove him [...]

How Reality Masks Fantasy: COMICON 2010 Experience

The Burlesque Downtown Girl Gone Old

Worldwide, the urban landscape of countries most visited by tourists may have changed. While there are efforts to keep the historic centers of towns and cities teeming with life through development, it is not the same case with the Old Dowtown Manila. Downtown Manila is consist of the old districts of Quiapo, Sta. Cruz and [...]

Human Devolution

Some people believe that humans have devolved as to their intellectual capacity. This is ironic considering how information communication technology has advanced in speed, capacity, scope and function. The decline of an individual’s intellectual potentials could be attributed to various factors. Schooling is just one of those. Howard Gardner, defines intelligence as the human potential [...]