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“Self Portrait as a Prosthetic Limb,” Ubiquitous (Pratt Literary Journal), 2007.
“Military Industrial Complex,” in Shock and Awe: War on Words (Santa Cruz: New Pacific Press, 2004).
“Review of A Perfect Storm,” KUSP broadcast, July 16/17, 2000
“Review of Mission Impossible 2,” KUSP broadcast May 26/27, 2000.
“Review of Hi-Fidelity,” KUSP broadcast April 27/28, 2000
“Review of Black and White,” KUSP broadcast April 10/11, 2000.
“ Multicultural Depression (Kills) ” (review of Romeo Must Die), KUSP broadcast March 25/26, 2000.
“ Wonder Why ” (review of Wonder Boys), KUSP broadcast March 11/12, 2000.
“ The Enterprise of Galaxy Quest ,” KUSP broadcast February 11/12, 2000.
“The Why of the Beholder” (review of Eye of the Beholder), KUSP broadcast January 28/29, 2000.
“ All About Your Desire ” (review of All About My Mother), KUSP Broadcast, January 14/15, 2000.
“ The Silence of Alienated Toys ” (review of Toy Story 2), KUSP Broadcast, December 31, 1999/January 1, 2000.
“The Vile Green Mile, KUSP Broadcast, December 17, 1999.
“The End of The End of Days, KUSP Broadcast, December 3 and 4, 1999.
“ Fight Club‘s Utopian Dick ,” KUSP Broadcast, November 5/6, 1999.
“Painting the Audience: Realism of Emmanuel Garibay,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday Magazine, January 26, 1997.
“Manila By Night: A Tribute to Ishmael Bernal,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday Magazine, June 23, 1996.
“Jackie Chan’s Martial Art: The Body as a Site of Struggle,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, September 30, 1995.
“The Invisible of Television: Lino Brocka’s Alternative Cinema,” Kampus Journal, Vol.1, No. 1, University of the Philippines, Diliman, September, 1995.
“Are You a Cyborg?” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, 9/2/95.
“Casper, The Ghost of Childhood,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, July 22, 1995.
“The Pulp Fiction Faction: Notes Towards an Investigation,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Saturday Special, July 1, 1995.
“The Utopian Strains of Rob Roy,” Manila Chronicle, June 4, 1995.
“The Nature of Capital: Environment and Selection in Natural Born Killers,” trans. Stefan Jonsson, Dagens Nyheter, (Swedish Newspaper), November, 1994.
“From Democratic Man to Demolition Man: Stallone’s Demolition (of the mind of) Man, Manila Chronicle, Section 4, January 4, 1994.
“Dinosaurs of Postmodernity: Jurassic Park and the World System,” Manila Chronicle, Section 4, August 3, 1993.
“White Homeland in A Far Off Place,” Manila Chronicle, Saturday Culture and Entertainment Magazine, July 24, 1993.
“Winning the Heart of the Military Industrial Complex: A Re-View of Robocop 3,” Manila Chronicle, Section 4, June 8, 1993.
“Philippine Film Precurses American Cinema,” Manila Chronicle, 2/16/93.
LECTURES, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, ETC.
“Image-Code-Financialization,” Keynote Address at NECS European Media Studies Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June 20-22, 2013.
“Pathologistics of Attention” at “The Psychopathology of Cognitive Capitalism Conference,” CalArts, Los Angeles, CA. Talk also given at USC, Nov. 8-9, 2012. Paper also presented at ACLA, Toronto, April 2013.
“Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival,” for Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating Conference, La Mama, Zagreb Croatia, 2012.
“Materializing the Invisible: The Media of History” University Seminar, Columbia University, April 25, 2011.
From Wage to Wager: Visuality and the Form of Value,” invited lecture, Center for Labor, Technology and Subjectivity, CUNY Graduate Center, April 1,2011.
“Labor, Attention, Digitality,” invited lecture, New School for Social Research,” March 30, 2011.
“Rise of Visuality and the Transformation of Labor and the Form of Value, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Keywords Series: “Labor,” Columbia University, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Forward to Class: Class Formations in the Capitalist Media Environment,” University of the Philippines, August, 23, 2010.
“The Media of Dispossession,” New School for Social Research, April 8, 2010.
“The Evisceration of the Sign,” at “Global Capitalism/Histories of Oppression,” Apex Art, NY, NY February 23, 2010.
“The Digital Ideology,” at “The Internet as Playground and Factory: Conference on Digital Labor,” The New School, NYC, Nov. 12-14, 2009.
“The Martial Art of Cinema: Modes of Virtuosity a la Hong Kong and the Philippines,” Graduate Program in Literature Alumni lecture series, Duke University, lecture and seminar, Durham, NC, January 22-23, 2009
“The Martial Art of Cinema: Modes of Virtuosity a la Hong Kong and the Philippines,” Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 15, 2008.
Keynote address, “Cinematicity and Choreography,” at “The Cinematic Mode of Choreography” conference, East Dance Academy and La Mama, Zagreb, Croatia, December 13, 2008.
“Camera Obscura After All: The Racist Writing With Light,” Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference Conference: Seeing Race, Columbia University, October 30, 2008.
“Materialist Analysis of the Visible,” Congress of Teachers /Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND), Lecture and Seminar, University of the Philippines, Diliman, August 14 and 15, 2008.
Mediology and the Dissertation Proposal , PhD Workshop, Ateneo de Manila, August 11, 2008.
“Iterations of the Impossible,” Kritika Kultura Lecture Series, Ateneo de Manila, August 8, 2008.
“Aesthetics and Politics of the Posthuman” Seminar, Visual Praxis Collective, University of Washington, May 28th, 2008.
“Iterations of the Impossible,” Visual Praxis Collective, University of Washington, May 27th, 2008.
“Attention: The Archive,” Mellon Working Group: Networking Visual Cultures, USC, May 2-3, 2008
“Iterations of the Impossible,” New York University, King Carlos I Center, April 18, 2008
“Visuality in the Maelstrom of the Digital,” New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Jan. 25, 2008
Seminar on The Cinematic Mode of Production, Goldsmiths, Nov. 6, 2007
“Dziga Vertov’s Enthusiasm,” Historical Materialism Conference, London, Nov. 5, 2007.
“’The America(n) Effect’: Abstract Expressionism Meets the School of the Americas,” Historical Materialism Conference, London, Nov. 5, 2007.
“’Visual Culture’ is the State of Emergency,” NYU, Visual Culture working group, Oct., 2007
“Blogging for Dollars,” Visual Culture and Contemporary Media Conference, New York University, April 20, 2007
“The Status of Formalism,” Panel Discussion, The Pratt Institute, April 16, 2007
“Roundtable on the Cinematic Mode of Production,” Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, February 28, 2007.
“The Martial Art of Cinema: Modes of Virtuosity a la Hong Kong and the Philippines,” UC Santa Cruz, February 5, 2007.
“Farce, Political Killings and the current Cultural Revolution,” University of the Philippines, July 28, 2006.
“Philippine Realism in a Time of Farce,” Roundtable Discussion, University of Washington at Seattle, May 26, 2006.
“’The America(n) Effect’: Abstract Expressionism Meets the School of the Americas,” 94th Annual College Art Association Conference, Feb. 24th 2006.
“The America(n) Effect,” Nineteenth Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, Oct 19-21, 2005.
Panel Chair, “Resistance in Performance: Dance, Theater, and Politics,” Performing Ethnicity Conference, City College of NY, 17 October, 2004
“Visual Culture as Counterrevolution,” Film Department, University of the Philippines (sponsored by CONTEND), July 11, 2004.
“Remediating the Real: Postcolonial Visuality and Philippine Cinema,” UC Riverside, May 5, 2004.
“Cinema All the Way Down,” Image and Critique,” Lansing Art Center, University of Nottingham, September 13-14, 2003.
“Media of Global War,” UCSC Teach-In, April 3, 2003.
“Legacy of Third Cinema,” San Francisco State University, Feb. 14, 2003.
“Metaphysics of the Cinema” University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 17, 2002.
“End (of) America!,” at “Culture Against War: Philippines on the Axis of Empire,” UCSC 6 April, 2002.
“The Capital of Innocence,” Post-9/11 Media Teach-In, UCSC, November 2001.
“The Medium of War,” at the “N to N” conference, UCSC, November, 2001.
“Wires, papers, sounds: the hidden potentials of Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira” exhibition notes, bAsE gallery, 27 October 2000
“Third Cinema in a Global Frame: Curacha, Yahoo! and Manila By Night,” University of California, Riverside, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, 2 March, 2000. Paper also delivered at SUNY Albany, Dept. of English, 28 February, 2000 and at UC Santa Cruz, Jr. Faculty Colloquim, 28 January, 2000, and at “New Asia Pacific Cinemas
Conference,” University of California, Irvine, October 8-9, 1999.
“Missing the Cultural Revolution: “Culture” as Mode of Production,” The State of Dissidence, University of the Philippines, Diliman, September 30, 1999.
“Literature, Media and Cultural Studies,” Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines, September 8, 1999.
“Third Cinema in a Global Frame,” Film Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 11, 1999.
“Visual Transformations and Philippine Modernity: Nationalism’s Molten Prayer,” Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, December 2, 1998.
“Visuality as a Site of Production and Resistance,” Tatag Sining Congress for Visual Artists, National Council for Culture and the Arts, Mayjayjay, Philippines, September 18-20, 1998.
Lecture Series: “Mass Mediations: Domination and Resistance,” Communications Dept. De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, July 11 – August 15, 1998.
“Scenes and Spaces of American (Literary) Intervention,” ACELT Conference, Ateneo de Manila University, August 8, 1998.
Response to Savage Acts: Wars Fairs and Empire, July 27, 1998, College of Mass Communications, University of the Philippines, Diliman.
“Cinema: The Highest Stage of Capital (to date),” Cultural Studies Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 29, 1997.
“Cinema: The Highest Stage of Capital (to date),” Berkeley Film & Video Consortium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 25, 1997.
“A Freeze-Dried History of the Philippines: Gemo Tapales’ Exhibition of ‘Now and Then,'” exhibition text (with N. Tadiar) at The Philippine Embassy, NYC, May 19-30, 1997.
“Conceptualizing the Visual Practices of H.R. Ocampo,” Critical Forum Venue, University of the Philippines, October 28, 1996.
“The Shelf-life of Abstraction: Daniel Oliver’s ‘Series Mondrian,'” exhibition text at The Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, November, 1994.
“Ideology and Pedagogy of Globalization,” Comparative Area Studies steering committee seminar at Duke University, September 16, 1994.
“City of Television: Metropolitan Affects and the New Americanism,” New Metropolitan Forms Conference, Duke University, April 7-9, 1994.
“Cinema, Capital of the Twentieth Century,” The Image of Technology, University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, March 10-13, 1994
“Food for Hallucination, or, Meat Dreams,” Screening Latinidad: A Project on Media, Performance and Visual Culture, Duke University, February 4-5, 1994
“God, Shit, Sex and Syntax: The Formal Consequences of Radical Thought in Alternative Video,” Mowelfund Film Institute, Manila Philippines, July 1993
“Towards a Dialectical Film of the Cinema (Books),” Deleuze Conference, Program in Literature, Duke University, March 5-7, 1993
“Alternative Video in the Southern Cone,” with Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Twelfth Annual ILASSA Conference on Latin America, University of Texas, Austin, March 6-8, 1992
“On the Emergent Visual Economy of Modernism,” Walter Benjamin and the Jetztzeit:1892-1992, Duke University, February 21-2, 1992
“Desiring the Involuntary: Robocop 2,” Subversions, University of Colorado at Boulder, February, 1991
“Intervention in A Field of Dreams with Ariel Dorfman” (video/talk), How We Learn History: The Past, The Classroom and Society, UNC, Chapel Hill, 1991
VIDEO AND FILM PRODUCTION
The ABC’s of Censorship, Videographer for Ariel Dorfman’s television segment, Channel 4, London, (broadcast:1991).
“ Intervention in A Field of Dreams with Ariel Dorfman, ” Director, for Paper Tiger Television, 30 min. (cablecast:1990).
“970-WIFE” (video-8, 21 min.),Videomaker, with Liz Ekhart, 1990
Mexica, experimental, B&W, 16 mm., sound, 18′, 1989
Persistence of Vision, experimental documentary, B&W, 16 mm., silent, 17′, 1988
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