On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines

As a rehearsal of a “tropical imaginary” that attempts to accentuate the entanglement of literature with the material world, this essay ‘coincides’ Jose F. Lacaba’s 1965 poem “Ang Kapaguran ng Panahon” (“The Weariness of Time”) with the 2015 El Niño phenomenon in the Philippines­ and its violent cul...

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Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.filipino-faculty-pubs-10822022-01-26T02:23:06Z On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines Benitez, Christian Jil R As a rehearsal of a “tropical imaginary” that attempts to accentuate the entanglement of literature with the material world, this essay ‘coincides’ Jose F. Lacaba’s 1965 poem “Ang Kapaguran ng Panahon” (“The Weariness of Time”) with the 2015 El Niño phenomenon in the Philippines­ and its violent culmination the following year in Kidapawan City, Cotabato Province, Mindanao. While time or panahon in the Philippine tropics is usually intuited as generative, this essay outlines the possibility of its being worn down, not simply as a “natural” consequence of the present climate emergency, but as a critical outcome of the predominant political infrastructures that practically prohibit the phenomenon of time from unfolding. As such, it becomes imperative to recognize that beyond the current conditions banally imposed as “arog talaga kayan” or “how things really are” is the urgent need for social reform—daring tropical imaginings through which Philippine time can possibly become anew. 2021-09-10T07:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/81 https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3819 Filipino Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo panahon Philippine time drought slow violence climate emergency El Niño tropical imaginary Climate Emergency and Disaster Management Environmental Policy Modern Literature South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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Philippines
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topic panahon
Philippine time
drought
slow violence
climate emergency
El Niño
tropical imaginary
Climate
Emergency and Disaster Management
Environmental Policy
Modern Literature
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
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Philippine time
drought
slow violence
climate emergency
El Niño
tropical imaginary
Climate
Emergency and Disaster Management
Environmental Policy
Modern Literature
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Benitez, Christian Jil R
On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines
description As a rehearsal of a “tropical imaginary” that attempts to accentuate the entanglement of literature with the material world, this essay ‘coincides’ Jose F. Lacaba’s 1965 poem “Ang Kapaguran ng Panahon” (“The Weariness of Time”) with the 2015 El Niño phenomenon in the Philippines­ and its violent culmination the following year in Kidapawan City, Cotabato Province, Mindanao. While time or panahon in the Philippine tropics is usually intuited as generative, this essay outlines the possibility of its being worn down, not simply as a “natural” consequence of the present climate emergency, but as a critical outcome of the predominant political infrastructures that practically prohibit the phenomenon of time from unfolding. As such, it becomes imperative to recognize that beyond the current conditions banally imposed as “arog talaga kayan” or “how things really are” is the urgent need for social reform—daring tropical imaginings through which Philippine time can possibly become anew.
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author Benitez, Christian Jil R
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title On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines
title_short On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines
title_full On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines
title_fullStr On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines
title_full_unstemmed On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines
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publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2021
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/81
https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3819
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