Blog Posts on criticism
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Writing to Express, Not to Impress. by Definitely Filipino on May 24, 2012When I was a child, I was never fond of writing. I hated writing before because I saw my classmates’ handwriting and I felt ashamed of my penmanship. I told the 8-year-old me that I can never write the way they do. As a kid, I used to think tha...
Intent by Going against the current on May 12, 2012Let’s break the ice all over again. I have been absent here for a time that I do not know how to begin a post anymore. Shall I begin by posing a question, posting a picture, quoting a famous person, or writing a sentence or two of gibberish? Mo...
Reading series 1: The Pleasure of the Text by Going against the current on Apr 24, 2012The Sentence is hierarchical: it implies subjections, subordinations, internal reactions. Whence its completion: how can a hierarchy remain open? The Sentence is complete: it is even precisely that language which is complete. Practice, here, is very...
Beyoncé’s Handwritten Letter to Michelle Obama Gets Criticized with Mean Comments. by Starz Trax on Apr 13, 2012Ouch! Beyoncé posted a personal letter on her website directed to First Lady Michelle Obama. It was simply a sincere gesture of thanks directed to Michelle and we thought it was really sweet. However, comments received on E!’s website got...
UST calls for submission to the 4th J. Elizalde Navarro National Criticism Workshop by The Intersections & Beyond on Mar 13, 2012THE UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas is now accepting applications to the 2012 UST J. Elizalde Navarro National Workshop in Criticism on the Arts and Humanities to be held in Baguio City on May 27-June 2, 2012.The workshop is organized by the Varsitarian, t...
11 Fellows to the Kritika 2012: National Workshop on Art & Cultural Criticism (April 22-28, 2012) by The Intersections & Beyond on Mar 6, 2012The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) award eleven (11) fellowships for KRITIKA 2012: National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism, which wil...
This is Just so Painful to Watch by Glimpses and Glances on Feb 2, 2012Just recently, actress Anne Curtis staged a huge concert at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, entitled: "Annebisyosa: No Other Concert". The concert (named after her album) featured mostly Anne's covers of songs by different artists, both foreign and local...
A symposium on "Philippine Film: History & Criticism" at UP-Diliman (Jan 13, 2012) by The Intersections & Beyond on Jan 5, 2012A symposium on Philippine Film: History & Criticism will be held at the CMC Auditorium of UP-Diliman on January 13, 2012 at 8:30am to 5:00pm. This is in honor of Nicanor G. Tiongson. Program for Day 2: Film Module Jan 13, 2011: 830 am-5...
The Importance of Movie Reviews Online: The Reason Why We are Here by Pinoy Movie Blogger on Jan 1, 2012The internet has been the home of opinion and expression ever since it emerged, thus we have blogs. Pinoy Movie Blogger is probably one of the hundreds (if not thousands) of review blogs dedicated to Filipino movies (film), and so what does that make...
READ AND…..”CRITICIZE” by Definitely Filipino on Dec 27, 2011I always notice how often people (including myself) criticize every little detail of a person, be it from their physical attributes, social status, to how he/she should live their lives. I have to say it would always be difficult not to, but as I fig...
