Bagay: Articulating a New Materialism from the Philippine Tropics

• Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: New materialism; bagay; Philippine poetics; decolonization; tropicality; Arts and Humanities; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/106; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=filipino-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Keeping in time with the new materialist turn that aspires to respond to the common disregard to matter in Euro-Western tradition of thought while at the same time insisting the imperative to decolonize such turn, this essay attempts to articulate a Philippine rendition of new materialism, through t...