Jan Gresil Kahambing
Biographic Data
| ID | 1193206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Gresil Kahambing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan Gresil |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahambing |
| SIGNATURE | KAHAMBING J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4258-0563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Slowness, Somaesthetics, and ‘Semi-curating’ Postdigital Positionality: Response to ‘Slowness as Postdigital Positionality in the Era of Generative AI: A Conversation’ (Raffaghelli et al. 2025)
Islamic Modernity and the Question of Secularism: Revisiting the Political Thought of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī
This article explores Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī's political thought in relation to modern debates on secularism and Islamic reform. While often invoked by Islamist thinkers to support their anti-secular stance, al-Afghānī's reflections on reason, religion, and constitutional politics show that he engaged with modernity in a more nuanced way than is commonly recognized. This article examines al-Afghānī's writings and their reception. It argues that …
Posthumanism in ecofeminist literature: Transgressions in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The li…
Fourfolded objects, or toward a philosophy of object‐oriented curation
This paper attempts to contextualize a philosophy of curation that is object‐oriented or toward a “return to the object.” In the museum, three interrelated philosophical problems pervade curation practices that prevent access to the object as it is. Here, the subject‐object relations or idealism‐realism issues are reconsidered as a specific niche of the philosophy of curation. To address these issues, this paper claims that Jean‐Paul Martinon and…
Truth, perspectivism, and scientific knowledge on health
ChatGPT, machine ethics, and conceptualizing Digital Dharma Therapy
The value of museums in averting a planetary health crisis
Supporting African thought with Migrant Indigenous Knowledge on dead human bodies research
None to declare. The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
Thinking With Roy and Žižek on the Freedom of a Forced Covid-19 ‘New Normal’
The increasing imagination of crisis within the contemporary scene is set within the state of emergency that is the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this background, there is the problem of redefining the conditions of normality. The paper aims to take some insights about how to think through this predicament from Arundhati Roy and Slavoj Žižek who are, the authors deemed, subversives against the normal regulatory course of though…
Bioethics as Mental Health? The Core Response on Typhoon Rai in Southern Leyte, Philippines
Super Typhoon Rai recently devastated the Philippines in December of 2021 and consequently disrupted its public and mental health interventions. With glocality standing at the interface between the global and the local, the objective of the study is to gather the core mental health response of those affected by the Typhoon in the province of Southern Leyte. As a methodology, the paper utilized face-to-face and online qualitative investigation fro…
Human rights and rethinking the use of “Mandatory” during Covid-19
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film
In this paper, I trace the absent narrative of the Roc’s Egg in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp to the film adaptation. Disney, in particular, omits the narrative and by omitting, changes the inner logic of the text. The 1992 animated film and the 2019 live adaptation introduce a power relationship that shifts from the text’s structural power into agential power through its genre ideology of Americanisation. In this shift, there is a vanishing element…
Learning from indigenous solidarities: Rural healthcare ethics, Pintakasi, and Covid-19
Epilepsy, Forgetting, and Convalescence in Ondaatje’s Warlight
Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight (2018), his latest novel to-date, contains nostalgic elements of strangeness and cartography. In this paper, I short-circuit such themes with health under medical humanities, which heeds a Nietzschean counsel of close reading in literature. To do so, I explore the case of Rachel’s illness, namely her epileptic seizures, as an instance that drives her impetus for active forgetting and eventual convalescence. A close her…
(In)visible Children and Covid-19: Human Trafficking in Public Health Ethics
This paper appraises the link of public health ethics to human trafficking, especially on children. Taking from the more visible reports of child deaths from the virus, I focus on child health as an emphasis on how during this COVID-19 crisis, abuse and violence are also there albeit hidden. The range of clandestine operations concerning this issue in the Philippines seem to be broad and persistent. While local emergency ethics focuses on varying…
Butler avec Agamben on the Spectrality of Love in a Post-Theoretical Culture
Cultural studies of recent memory tend to cling to love and find a certain answer from its musings. This critical move proceeds from various interrogations of cultural or cross-cultural practices towards adapting a linear progress so that love is tasked to provide an antidote to contemporary social maladies. This critical paper, however, attempts to appraise the idea that love is not a panacea, especially in a setting where theory is fragmented a…
In the mountains, we are like prisoners”: Kalinggawasan as Indigenous Freedom of the Mamanwa of Basey, Samar
The Lumad struggle in the Philippines, embodied in its various indigenous peoples (IPs), is still situated and differentiated from modern understandings of their plight. Agamben notes that the notion of ‘people’ is always political and is inherent in its underlying poverty, disinheritance, and exclusion. As such, the struggle is a struggle that concerns a progression of freedom from these conditions. Going over such conditions means that one shif…
Theorizing Mamanuan Diaspora: From Vanishing Mediator to Performative Indigeneity
The Mamanuas of Basey, Samar have been in an itinerant state since the 1950s. Their indigenous experience can be capped in the term ‘diaspora,’ which pictures their plight as dispersive habituation, moving from town to town away from their homeland. In a recent study which this paper hinges upon, the concept of diaspora can no longer work and is argued to imperatively function as a vanishing mediator so that indigeneity must come to mean as a con…
Inhuman Rights: Components of Spectrality in Anil’s Ghost
Human rights discourse in Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost is premised in the insistence of seeking responsibility for the deaths of the victims and viewing them within a shared sense of humanity. Although inserted with throwbacks, there is a linearity in the text that proceeds with Anil and Sarath seeking Sailor's human identity. Taking an alternative from this linear fashion, this paper presents the discourse of rights within an inhuman or spectra…
Islamic Modernity and the Question of Secularism: Revisiting the Political Thought of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī
This article explores Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī's political thought in relation to modern debates on secularism and Islamic reform. While often invoked by Islamist thinkers to support their anti-secular stance, al-Afghānī's reflections on reason, religion, and constitutional politics show that he engaged with modernity in a more nuanced way than is commonly recognized. This article examines al-Afghānī's writings and their reception. It argues that …
Theorizing Mamanuan Diaspora: From Vanishing Mediator to Performative Indigeneity
The Mamanuas of Basey, Samar have been in an itinerant state since the 1950s. Their indigenous experience can be capped in the term ‘diaspora,’ which pictures their plight as dispersive habituation, moving from town to town away from their homeland. In a recent study which this paper hinges upon, the concept of diaspora can no longer work and is argued to imperatively function as a vanishing mediator so that indigeneity must come to mean as a con…
Inhuman Rights: Components of Spectrality in Anil’s Ghost
Human rights discourse in Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost is premised in the insistence of seeking responsibility for the deaths of the victims and viewing them within a shared sense of humanity. Although inserted with throwbacks, there is a linearity in the text that proceeds with Anil and Sarath seeking Sailor's human identity. Taking an alternative from this linear fashion, this paper presents the discourse of rights within an inhuman or spectra…
(In)visible Children and Covid-19: Human Trafficking in Public Health Ethics
This paper appraises the link of public health ethics to human trafficking, especially on children. Taking from the more visible reports of child deaths from the virus, I focus on child health as an emphasis on how during this COVID-19 crisis, abuse and violence are also there albeit hidden. The range of clandestine operations concerning this issue in the Philippines seem to be broad and persistent. While local emergency ethics focuses on varying…
Butler avec Agamben on the Spectrality of Love in a Post-Theoretical Culture
Cultural studies of recent memory tend to cling to love and find a certain answer from its musings. This critical move proceeds from various interrogations of cultural or cross-cultural practices towards adapting a linear progress so that love is tasked to provide an antidote to contemporary social maladies. This critical paper, however, attempts to appraise the idea that love is not a panacea, especially in a setting where theory is fragmented a…
In the mountains, we are like prisoners”: Kalinggawasan as Indigenous Freedom of the Mamanwa of Basey, Samar
The Lumad struggle in the Philippines, embodied in its various indigenous peoples (IPs), is still situated and differentiated from modern understandings of their plight. Agamben notes that the notion of ‘people’ is always political and is inherent in its underlying poverty, disinheritance, and exclusion. As such, the struggle is a struggle that concerns a progression of freedom from these conditions. Going over such conditions means that one shif…
Learning from indigenous solidarities: Rural healthcare ethics, Pintakasi, and Covid-19
Epilepsy, Forgetting, and Convalescence in Ondaatje’s Warlight
Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight (2018), his latest novel to-date, contains nostalgic elements of strangeness and cartography. In this paper, I short-circuit such themes with health under medical humanities, which heeds a Nietzschean counsel of close reading in literature. To do so, I explore the case of Rachel’s illness, namely her epileptic seizures, as an instance that drives her impetus for active forgetting and eventual convalescence. A close her…
Thinking With Roy and Žižek on the Freedom of a Forced Covid-19 ‘New Normal’
The increasing imagination of crisis within the contemporary scene is set within the state of emergency that is the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this background, there is the problem of redefining the conditions of normality. The paper aims to take some insights about how to think through this predicament from Arundhati Roy and Slavoj Žižek who are, the authors deemed, subversives against the normal regulatory course of though…
Bioethics as Mental Health? The Core Response on Typhoon Rai in Southern Leyte, Philippines
Super Typhoon Rai recently devastated the Philippines in December of 2021 and consequently disrupted its public and mental health interventions. With glocality standing at the interface between the global and the local, the objective of the study is to gather the core mental health response of those affected by the Typhoon in the province of Southern Leyte. As a methodology, the paper utilized face-to-face and online qualitative investigation fro…
Human rights and rethinking the use of “Mandatory” during Covid-19
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film
In this paper, I trace the absent narrative of the Roc’s Egg in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp to the film adaptation. Disney, in particular, omits the narrative and by omitting, changes the inner logic of the text. The 1992 animated film and the 2019 live adaptation introduce a power relationship that shifts from the text’s structural power into agential power through its genre ideology of Americanisation. In this shift, there is a vanishing element…
ChatGPT, machine ethics, and conceptualizing Digital Dharma Therapy
The value of museums in averting a planetary health crisis
Supporting African thought with Migrant Indigenous Knowledge on dead human bodies research
None to declare. The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
Posthumanism in ecofeminist literature: Transgressions in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The li…
Fourfolded objects, or toward a philosophy of object‐oriented curation
This paper attempts to contextualize a philosophy of curation that is object‐oriented or toward a “return to the object.” In the museum, three interrelated philosophical problems pervade curation practices that prevent access to the object as it is. Here, the subject‐object relations or idealism‐realism issues are reconsidered as a specific niche of the philosophy of curation. To address these issues, this paper claims that Jean‐Paul Martinon and…
Truth, perspectivism, and scientific knowledge on health
Islamic Modernity and the Question of Secularism: Revisiting the Political Thought of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī
This article explores Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī's political thought in relation to modern debates on secularism and Islamic reform. While often invoked by Islamist thinkers to support their anti-secular stance, al-Afghānī's reflections on reason, religion, and constitutional politics show that he engaged with modernity in a more nuanced way than is commonly recognized. This article examines al-Afghānī's writings and their reception. It argues that …
Slowness, Somaesthetics, and ‘Semi-curating’ Postdigital Positionality: Response to ‘Slowness as Postdigital Positionality in the Era of Generative AI: A Conversation’ (Raffaghelli et al. 2025)
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works)