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However, time had come when I just had to ask myself—and sometimes
am ashamed to ask—“when will we ever get ‘over it?’” Though I
understand that knowing one’s history is to wield power over those who
try to fool you with it, I can’t help asking if would be possible to just move
on and really start anew without being bitter about the past? Could it be
that our fixation with the past and to the injustices of the past (because we
were told that to forget what happened in the past might cause it to
happen again) are the reasons behind our not being able to rebuild as a
nation? Please excuse the analogy, but I have pictured it in my mind this
way: most post-colonial discourses, such as those of Fannon’s and Said’s
(both of whom I greatly respect), can be likened to the first few stages
lovers go through after a bad break-up. They wake up one day to find that
they had been duped, they lash out, they retaliate, they eventually pick up
the pieces, try to recover their sense of self and self-esteem (if they can
manage it), but constantly warn ourselves against the possibility of a
relapse.
I will risk sounding naïve just to express something that I have kept to
myself for some time now, something that I still have internal conflicts
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about (because I am aware that a lot of injustices are still being done and
some sectors of our society are far from being ready to “move on”). I
welcome any kind of reaction.
The discussion that we had during the last meeting of our Media
210 class has reminded me again of these questions I have regarding
post-colonialism. We discussed how certain colonial systems still persist in
our present-day academic institutions. Classifications of fields of
knowledge that have become obsolete or at least problematic since people
are slowly realizing the importance of interdisciplinary studies. Now I
would like to talk about a similar concern almost on the same topic:
scholarship.
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A colleague of mine, Mr. Joel Yuvienco, shared with me several terms that
seem to have the beginnings of a new framework for the Internet
generation. These terms are discover, disclose, connect and co-create. The
terms don’t necessarily come in that order; the sequence may vary through
experience, but these are the major patterns that we go through when we
engage in collaborative work, such as online networks and communities on
the Internet. I think these terms are very applicable to collaborative
activities offline, too, especially those that aim to emancipate others.
Discovery pertains to new perspectives, information, tools, frameworks,
beliefs that we find when we decide to Connect or directly engage in
communicating through the given media. Once we open our web browsers,
type key words or tags on search engines and enter sites, we discover what
people have to say or have Disclosed readily. Of course, connecting could
also mean signing up or joining already existing groups and networks, also
creating user accounts for social software. Disclosing involves your sharing
yourself or a part of yourself to the world wide web audience. Disclosing
may be intentional by putting in aesthetic elements of your choice, linking
other people’s sites (especially those you want to be associated with), or
unintentional, like sharing music, videos and artworks that you like, or by
writing blog-entries in the stream-of-consciousness mode, etc. Co-creating
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I may be sounding really abstract right now, but there’s just too many and
varied examples online and choosing just one or two will fail to illustrate
my point. And I attest to the fact that a lot of people right now are
unselfishly sharing their knowledge online with no expectation of being
[financially] compensated for it. It is enough that people interact and put it
there two cent’s worth to the development of information (see discussions
on and the actual texts of Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the
Magic Kingdom). But I guess if one is familiar with the Internet, one
will understand what I am saying. My point is that if “critical social science
makes a conscious attempt to fuse theory and action” or praxis3 (from
Jelai’s report on Classical Marxism), then asking students to merely mouth
or repeat what their teachers wanted to hear is less empowering than
asking them to create/cocreate new knowledge. We need to change the
way we look at research in the academe (from intellectual property,
unique, authoritative, exclusive discourse). To something wrought out of
collaboration, sharing, non-exclusive. Educators somehow have to realize
that everything could have been said already. The Philosophers and
Critical Thinkers of the past might have beaten us to it, and it is just a
matter of reading, selecting, converging texts (viewpoints, realities) and
presenting them as a new statement (the combination is unique but the
content has been there ever since).
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