Beauty and Brutality Manila and Its Global Discontents

Contents
Acknowledgments in Three Parts
Manila in the World / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Rolando B. Tolentino, and Robert Diaz
Scenes Not So Fair: Poetic Representations of the Philippine Capital City / Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr.
Smelling Manila / Gary C. Devilles
A Tale of Three Buildings: The National Film Archive, Marcos Cultural Policy, and Anarchival Temporality / Bliss Cua Lim
Wayward Informality, Queer Urbanism: Manila, the Dark and Decadent City / Ferdinand M. Lopez
This Is Our City: Manila, Popular Music, and the Translocal / Christine Bacareza Balance
Nodes of a City Labyrinth / John B. Labella
Of Demolitions and Dispossession: The Everyday Violence of Metro Manila’s Growth Politics / Faith R. Kares
Recalling to Sitio San Roque: Countermapping Urban Spaces in Quezon City / Vanessa Banta
Infrastructural Futures: Arroyo’s Philippines in a Technological Frame / Paul Nadal
“The Struggle Continues...”: On the Cruel Optimism of LGBT Organizing / Roland Sintos Coloma
Sociotechnical Infrastructures: Tracing Gay Socio-Sexual App Socialities in Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
Halimaw: A Hauntology of Manila in Street Art / Louise Jashil R. Sonido
Endo, Manila Kentex Fire, and Contractualization under Global Capitalism / Jema Pamintuan
Regime-Made Disaster in Metro Manila: Beyond an Aesthetics Reading of Photographs of Duterte’s “Drug War” / Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo and Raffy Lerma
Contributors
Index