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THE CELL PHONE AND THE CROWD: MESSIANIC POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINES
VICENTE L. RAFAEL
ABSTRACT:
PROMISES
Calling
Telephones = 1885
o Direct comm among colonial BOURGOISE
Can afford
Placing them in a position of hearing and being heard directly by the Spanish
COLONIAL STATE
o Telecomm
Shaping nationalist consciousness
POR TELEFONO
By jose rizal
Eavesdropper narrator
Wiretaps to EXPOSE HYPROCRISY
o Capacity to reveal what was once hidden, repeat secret and pass messages outside of a
particular circle
o TAPPING AND FORWARDING MESSAGES = led to PP II
MEDIA DREW THEM AWAY FROM THEIR SEATS AS SPECTATORS TO BECOME PART OF A CROWD
WITH A COMMON WISH
CELL PHONE
TEXTING
CROWDING
CROWDING
CONSTRAINT
CROWD – calls for and is called by JUSTICE held by the promise of its arrival
JUSTICE
NON-VIOLENT NATURE
Instead of gathering on the basis of JUSTICE as a promise (like freedom)>> is always yet to be
realized and always yet to come
Poised to arrive from the future
Unceasing uncertainty of its arrival that constitutes the present
JUSTICE
o Comes by not fully coming in ways unexpected
o Free from any particular socio-technical determination
o As promise (message of Flor C.)
o Promissary nature
Event whose eventfulness occurs in advance of and beyond any given political
and social order
Evading reification and exceeding institutional consolidation which entails a
telecommunication of sorts
JACQUES DERRIDA
POST-SCRIPT