Announcement: Post-Ality: the View from the South
Ateneo de Manila University Department of Sociology and Anthropology School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools cordially invites you to An afternoon of conversation with Dr Epifanio San Juan, Jr and Dr Delia D Aguilar on Post-Ality: the View from the South 21 February 2014, 4-6 pm Faber Hall Function Room (FH 101) Post-ality, originally referred to as “the ensemble of practices that, as a totality, obscure the production practices of capitalism” has now come to refer to the cultural and ideological mood — embodied primarily in postmodernism — which arose in the 1960s as an attempt to come to terms with widespread social, cultural, and economic changes that followed the end of the postwar industrial boom. In sum, post-ality challenges the humanist claims of the Enlightenment: that objective reality can be known, that there are underlying logics which govern human behavior, and that humans shape society. As post-ality would have it, our understanding of the human world is “at best” fragmentary. In the West post-ality today is in decline, or at least, is at …