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E. San Juan is remarkable for his commitment to literature and culture as vital areas of contemporary social life. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?--Prof. Fredric Jameson, Duke University ***E. San Juan is one of the worlds most distinguished progressive critics. He is undoubtedly the leading authority on Filipino-American literary relations.--Prof. H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University *** In this epoch of disastrous neoliberal globalization, E. San Juans critique seizes the crisis in neocolonial Philippines as a point of intervention. As current Philippine President Dutertes timely war on drugs and corruption rages, E. San Juan highlights the facticity that Filipinos are once more confronted with the barbaric legacy of U.S. domination, legitimized today as civilizing humanitarianism. This wide-ranging discourse by a Filipino radical scholar interrogates the apologetic use of postcolonial dogmas, Saussurean semiology versus Peircean semiotics, Kafkas allegory on torture, Edward Saids use of Gramsci, and the postconceptual view of photography. Overall, the author seeks to deploy a historical-materialist perspective in elucidating the dialectical interplay of contradictory forces symbolized in art and diverse cultural texts. In the process, he delineates the contexts of events with the end view of generating revolutionary transformations in the Asian-Pacific islands marked by the prevalence of U.S. imperial hegemony in the global system. (Series: Critical Voices) Subject: Politics, Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Post-Colonialism]
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Filipinas Everywhere
General Editor: David Jonathan Y. Bayot
Filipinas Everywhere
Essays in Criticism and Cultural Studies
from a Filipino Perspective
from a Filipino Perspective
E. San Juan, Jr.
Copyright E. San Juan, Jr., 2016 (Philippine Edition).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
San Juan, E. (Epifanio)
Filipinas everywhere / E. San Juan, Jr.
[Manila] :
De La Salle University Publishing House, 2016.
2016 192 pages ; 23 cm. (Critical Voices)
ISBN: 978-971-555-640-8 (pbk), in the Critical Voices series
1. PhilippinesHistory. 2. GlobalizationPolitical aspects
Philippines. I. Title. II. Series: Critical voices
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Contents
Acknowledgements
The author of any work of critical analysis and judgment such as this volume is necessarily a collective body or, better yet, a solidarity of minds, wills, and hopes. A listing of the members of this body, the many in one, would only repeat what I have already done in my previous books, in particular Balikbayang Sinta, From Globalization to National Liberation, and Between Empire and Insurgency all published within the last decade. Here I invoke remembrance and celebration of this assemblage, a united front of struggle and conviviality, affirming again our common commitment to principles of justice, equality, and national-democratic self-determination.
Suffice it for me here to record my huge debt of gratitude to Professor Delia D. Aguilar for her insightful reading of the text, for improvements and corrections of these revised versions of essays originally prepared for diverse conjunctures and venues. Thanks also to the editors of the following journals in which the earlier drafts appeared: Kritika Kultura, Black Commentator, Left Curve, Cultural Logic, Red Critique, Atlantic Studies, St. Johns Humanities Review, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and the Philippine Journal of Sciences and the Humanities
I want to take this occasion to thank my colleagues in the Polytechnic University of the Philippines for their support, among them President Emanuel C. De Guzman; Professor Merdeka C. Morales, head of the Center for Creative Writing; and Professor Virgilio Rivas, head of the Institute for Cultural Studies. Above all, I am deeply grateful to Professor David Jonathan Bayot, director of the De La Salle University Publishing House, and Ms. Louise Jezareth Antipala for making this book an actuality. Mabuhay kayong lahat!
Introduction
Global capitalism is entering its period of unmitigated barbarism. The catastrophic decline of Wall Street and the global meltdown of finance capitalism since SeptemberOctober 2008 signal a fortuitous turn for humanity in world history. It marks the beginning of the end of imperialist domination, a warning to the transnational bourgeoisie, and the advent of socialist reconstruction. Local and international movements for social justice and ecological rationality have been significantly impacted by what has been taking place on a global basis since the metropoles elite began responding to the crisis of the 1970s of FordistKeynesian capitalism and the decay of market-driven regimes.
Class war on a global scale persists with implacable fury. We have witnessed the development of a new model of accumulation in which transnational fractions of capital have become dominant in part because of sophisticated mechanisms of accumulation. They include a cheapening of workers wages and the growth of flexible, deregulated, and deunionized labor wherein women always experience superexploitation in relation to men; the dramatic expansion of speculative, casinostyle capitalism; the creation of supranational regulatory structures to facilitate the emerging global circuits of accumulation; and neoliberal structural adjustment programs that seek to create the conditions for frictionless operations of emerging booty profiteers across borders. Profit maximizing remains the key goal. And while there still exist units of national capital, global capital, and regional capital, the hegemonic fraction of owners of accumulated surplus value on a planetary scale is now the minority plutocrats of the Global North.
And so we are witness to seeming paradoxical trends. The profound dismantling of national economies and the reconstitution of national households as component elements or segments of a larger global production and financial system are proceeding without letup. The new order is organized in a fragmented, decentralized way controlled by the concentrated power of the major elite blocs of the Global North. But the nation-state still serves the interests of capital against labor. As Marx and Engels put it, the nation state remains a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. The nation-states are dead; long live the state-nations!
Caught in the Impasse
After the end of the Cold War, the world waited in agonized skepticism for a renewal of hope and a revival of the struggle for authentic popular democracy. September 11, 2001, however, blasted that hope and ushered in a terrible era of what the corporate elite called the global war on terrorism, still inflicting damage everywhere.
Death by remote-controlled rockets and drone missiles haunt the homelands of people of color. The horrendous massacre of millions of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere, as well as the death of thousands of American and European soldiers following Bushs barbaric overkill occupation of Iraq, were only preludes to the disasters that have reached Paris, London, Los Angeles, and metropoles of the Global North. The US practice of torture such as waterboarding (as seen at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons holding unlawful combatants), extraordinary renditions, and the numerous violations of the US Constitution and UN Covenants all comprising war crimes. These may have led to the ouster of the brutish Republican administration and the historic election of Barack Obama, the first African-American to occupy the White House. But instead of decisively opening a new page in historythe renewal of social transformation begun in the Civil Rights/national-liberation struggles of the sixtiesit ushered in a period of genocidal drone warfare, perpetuation of torture and Guantanamo-style renditions, and a wave of racist violence signalled by Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, and diverse nationwide rebellions (of which #BlackLivesMatter is one index).
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