Geronimo Cristobal

Year: 2016

  • Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Images (2003; French title Le destin des images)

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    Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Images (2003; French title Le destin des images) asks a fundamental question: who decides what can be seen and what can be said in art? For Rancière, art is always shaped by a “regime” — a system of rules that organizes the relationship between the visible and the speakable. This…

  • Leni Robredo in Alabang

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    Before beginning my article on hoaxes and the propaganda machine, I would like to share this video: Leni Robredo gave a speech at Alabang Country Club last March 21, 2016. The vice-presidential candidate told how and why she arrived at the moment of deciding to run in the elections, first as a district representative and…

  • We have nothing to add to this world

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      Above: A folded photograph by Romero Barragan The story of Romero Barragan (1942–2014), an avant-gardist painter and sculptor who fell into obscurity after the Marcos regime, and his journey to redefine an artistic practice that sought to obliterate the divisions of life and art. One can perceive the 1980s in Philippine art as a…