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Lo-fi Freedoms and the Anti-Aesthetic Photograph
Full text linkThis visual rhetorical critique accounts for the cultural positionality of “anti-aesthetic” photographs. The digital photographic projects Picture lang and Mga sulat sa daan are taken as cases of contemporary visual practices that interrupt and resist aesthetic values. I engage them through an ontological approach by analyzing the rhetoricity of images within the modalities of visual practice. This entails encountering photographs as what Kevin Michael DeLuca refers to as image events— images that produce realities rather than just represent them. To locate eventfulness is to identify how images facilitate alternative ways of seeing from which new viewing subjects can emerge. I utilize contemporary modalities of glances, speed, and distraction while reworking Roland Barthes’ ideas on the rhetoric of images to argue for the rhetoricity of foregrounding the denotative. Denotations work by defamiliarizing the viewer and recalibrating their sense of value towards images. I also argue that the anti-aesthetics function through a multimodality of performances. Performances of orality and silences imbue image events with sonic qualities and imaginaries while their liminality challenges notions of homogeneity in favor of instability and potentiality. To delineate its political effects, reproducibility and circulation are forwarded as crucial performative qualities that allow anti-aesthetic photos to evade commodity status and undergo transformations in their form and function. However, the anti-aesthetics’ resistant positionality is not fixed. It can still acquire value and gain currency within aesthetic industries. But these “failures” of the anti-aesthetic do not equate to its impossibility. The anti-aesthetic is still a valid category of critique as demonstrated by its capability to rhetorically transform our understanding of aesthetic value and ways of seeing, feeling, and understanding. Thus, the freedoms afforded by these anti-aesthetic projects are likewise in low-fidelity— offering brief glances of complex futures
Polyglot Employees: Their Motivations to Apply to and Remain in the BPO Industry
No full textThis study explores what attracts polyglot or multilingual employees to work for business process outsourcing (BPO) or shared service business firms and how many, through their human resource (HR) department, remain. It adopts a pluralist industrial relations (IR) perspective to assess polyglot employees and BPO companies as distinct units driven by different needs and motivations. The survey reveals that more than the salary, work schedule attracts polyglot employees to work in BPOs and shared service industries, while career advancements and harmonious relationships are what help companies retain them. Despite the high salary and benefits, HR managers still struggle to recruit polyglot employees due to their scarcity. Thus, HR must improvise strategies to ensure employee retention
In Monumento a Mi Idioma
No full textIn Monumento a Mi Idioma: Ambag ni Rizal sa Pag-aaral sa mga Wika ng Pilipina
A Grammatical Comparison of Malay and Tagalog
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It is perhaps superfluous to repeat here what is already known even to the layman, that Malay and Tagalog have many items in common in their vocabularies. What is likely not generally known, however, is that while there are some features in grammar which the two languages share, there are many more in which they differ. My purpose in making this comparison is to show the average speaker of Malay and Tagalog how each other’s language looks like. To be sure, their cultures had been under foreign influences for centuries, again a well-known fact, and these influences had bestowed a largess in the languages of the former wards, particularly in their vocabularies: the Malays predominantly under British, Dutch and Islam, the Tagalogs under Spanish, American and Christian influences
