Acts of Life: Public Presentation
The talk features the theoretical designation of
‘Black Elephant’ as a much-ignored metaphor for systemic risks which are highly predictable in nature and yet unheeded by governmental institutions. The Black Elephant is an obvious repetition of urban risk attitude clouded by negligence and corruption.
Unlike Singapore’s resilient systemic response, the Philippines thrives in an uncharted region of ignored possibilities. In this region, it adopts a rather resistant posture which tries to block external and internal risks as they happen which often results to undesirable outcomes: increasing death tolls, destroyed properties, insatiable human greed amid disorder. The Duterte government-sponsored drug war remains the best example of this resistant model, a prima facie evidence of the Philippines becoming the Black Elephant in the room.
This illustrates a clear imagism of the Philippine status quo exploring how human politicking intervenes in social and ecological risks.
Limited slots. RSVP through: tinyurl.com/TalkAoL
About the Speakers
JAYSON C. JIMENEZ teaches Philosophy and Literature at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He is also currently engaged in the study of the Anthropocene and Deleuze. Jimenez finished his MA in Philosophy at the Divine Word Mission Seminary (Christ the King), Quezon City, Philippines, with a focus on Marx’s 1841 Doctoral Thesis and Greek Atomism. He is interested in French contemporary philosophy with a concentrated look upon Psychoanalytic theory (Lacan) and Geophilosophy (Deleuze/Guattari).
IDA ROSCHER currently lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. She studied Fine Arts and International Criminology and searches for ways of translating social forms and norms. Her work oscillates between artistic practice and social science research as a critical approach to challenge widely accepted modes of expression, representation and methodology.
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