Category: books
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Review of Unmaking Botany by Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez for Kyoto Southeast Asian Studies Journal
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez. Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2025. Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez’s Unmaking Botany offers a compelling and interdisciplinary rethinking of the history of science in the Philippines. Rather than treating botany as a one-way imposition of imperial knowledge, the book foregrounds the coproduction and friction between…
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Jacques Derrida’s La vérité en peinture (Flammarion 1978)
Jacques Derrida’s La vérité en peinture (The Truth in Painting), published by Flammarion in 1978, gathers a set of essays that rethink the relation between philosophy and the visual arts. The title, borrowed from a remark by Paul Cézanne, signals the provocation at the heart of the book: if painting is said to bear or…
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Isabelo de los Reyes’s Las Islas Visayas
Isabelo de los Reyes was born on July 7, 1864 in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, the son of the Ilocana poet Leona Florentino. He was raised for a time under the care of his uncle, a lawyer and member of Ilocos’ literary circle. At sixteen, without his uncle’s consent, he left for Manila. He studied at…
Geronimo Cristobal 