Regletto Aldrich Imbong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6406321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Regletto Aldrich Imbong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Regletto Aldrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Imbong |
| SIGNATURE | IMBONG R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8677-1599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fascism and the Omnipresence of Communication
This paper will investigate the intersection between fascism and social media communication.Drawing from Christian Fuchs's notion of digital fascism and placing it in dialogue with other Marxist literature, the paper will argue that the state retains a centering role in the organization of fascism as against the post-organizational position which highlights its ambivalent, fluid, and decentered character.The paper will further argue that the prop…
Authoritarian Disaster
Good Food in a Technological World
In this paper, I develop a concept of “good food” by placing in dialogue Albert Borgmann’s notions of focal things and practices with the experiences of two Lumad groups in Mindanao, Philippines, the Manobos and the Blaans. The “availability” of contemporary food, resulting from the “device paradigm,” creates an atrophic existence rooted in social and material disengagement with food production. I argue that the experiences of these two Lumad gro…
Neocolonialism and the Technopolitics of Specialization
As a theoretical framework in the Science and Technology Studies ( sts ) scholarship, the sociotechnical imaginaries approach ( sta ) has provided a conceptual framework and methodology that not only overcome the deterministic understanding of technological development but also theorized the relationship between society on the one hand, and science and technology on the other. However, as will be pointed out, a limitation of the sta renders it in…
Underground Asia
Police Power in the Philippines in the Time of the Pandemic
In the essay "Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations," Banu Bargu developed the notion of the Biopolitical State Apparatus (BSA). This essay deploys Bargu's notion of the BSA within what it claims is a militarized police power in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Illustrating how the functioning of militarized police power underpins the implementation of public-health policy and the enforcement…
On Transistor Radios and Authoritarianism
As the Philippines continues to grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, new modalities of instruction are being devised by the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, through the Department of Education (DepEd). Among these are what the DepEd provided as self-learning modules (SLMs) combined with “alternative learning delivery modalities” which include radio-based instruction (DepEd 2020). The SLMs and radiobased instruction are the most co…
Forging a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines
The Philippines has experienced the longest Maoist insurrection in Asia. For almost half a century, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA), and the National Democ
Police Power in the Philippines in the Time of the Pandemic
In the essay "Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations," Banu Bargu developed the notion of the Biopolitical State Apparatus (BSA). This essay deploys Bargu's notion of the BSA within what it claims is a militarized police power in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Illustrating how the functioning of militarized police power underpins the implementation of public-health policy and the enforcement…
Forging a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines
The Philippines has experienced the longest Maoist insurrection in Asia. For almost half a century, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA), and the National Democ
On Transistor Radios and Authoritarianism
As the Philippines continues to grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, new modalities of instruction are being devised by the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, through the Department of Education (DepEd). Among these are what the DepEd provided as self-learning modules (SLMs) combined with “alternative learning delivery modalities” which include radio-based instruction (DepEd 2020). The SLMs and radiobased instruction are the most co…
Police Power in the Philippines in the Time of the Pandemic
In the essay "Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations," Banu Bargu developed the notion of the Biopolitical State Apparatus (BSA). This essay deploys Bargu's notion of the BSA within what it claims is a militarized police power in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Illustrating how the functioning of militarized police power underpins the implementation of public-health policy and the enforcement…
Authoritarian Disaster
Good Food in a Technological World
In this paper, I develop a concept of “good food” by placing in dialogue Albert Borgmann’s notions of focal things and practices with the experiences of two Lumad groups in Mindanao, Philippines, the Manobos and the Blaans. The “availability” of contemporary food, resulting from the “device paradigm,” creates an atrophic existence rooted in social and material disengagement with food production. I argue that the experiences of these two Lumad gro…
Neocolonialism and the Technopolitics of Specialization
As a theoretical framework in the Science and Technology Studies ( sts ) scholarship, the sociotechnical imaginaries approach ( sta ) has provided a conceptual framework and methodology that not only overcome the deterministic understanding of technological development but also theorized the relationship between society on the one hand, and science and technology on the other. However, as will be pointed out, a limitation of the sta renders it in…
Underground Asia
Fascism and the Omnipresence of Communication
This paper will investigate the intersection between fascism and social media communication.Drawing from Christian Fuchs's notion of digital fascism and placing it in dialogue with other Marxist literature, the paper will argue that the state retains a centering role in the organization of fascism as against the post-organizational position which highlights its ambivalent, fluid, and decentered character.The paper will further argue that the prop…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works) · Digital Education and Society (2 works)