Recapitulation/reprise of the six collages, with the "untutored eye" exploring the contradictions of neocolonial Philippines, a microcosm of the explosive crisis of global capitalism, its convulsive death-pangs giving birth to its gravediggers. In between, as Gramsci noted, we witness horrors, perversions, monsters, nightmares symptomatic of commodity-fetishism, exploitation of alienated labor, rape of nature and bodies, along the passage-ways, corridors, roads, streets whose openings/ends seem remote... Only the "festival of the oppressed" can blast this continuum of decay and realize possible worlds....
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