MANILA, Philippines - R. Kwan Laurel has just published Philippine Cultural Disasters: Essays on an Age of Hyper Consumption, a book that looks at different credentials-dispensing institutions and individuals in the Philippines, revealing their ideological coordinates in a world where commodity fetishism and capitalist accumulation have become the norm, even among writers and academics supposedly opposed to capitalism.
This collection shows us that issues surrounding the dominant culture and the dissent against it are subjects that must be discussed and debated vigorously. The book is published by Willing Ox Publishing, and distributed by Anvil Publishing, Inc.