what’s good for science isn’t necessarily good for science publishers, whose interests have drifted far out of alignment with ours. Under the old model, publishers become the owners of the papers they publish, holding the copyright and selling copies around the world – a useful service in pre-internet days. But now that it’s a trivial undertaking to make a paper globally available, there is no reason why scientists need yield copyright to publishers.
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Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor | Science | guardian.co.uk

Is this the dawn of a new dark ages?

VAGINAL ECONOMY: Cinema and Globalization in the Post-Marcos Post-Brocka Era

 

Rolando B. Tolentino

Abstract

This essay explores the trope of the vaginal economy that is proliferated in the political economy and nature of Philippine migration. The vaginal economy is both receptacle and symptom of Philippine development. It represents the discourse through cinema, and historicizes the primal debate in the Marcos and Brocka contestation for image-building of the nation. Primarily through the sex-oriented (bomba) films and their permutations in the various political life of the contemporary nation, the vaginal economy is historicized even in the after-life of the post-Marcos and post-Brocka era.

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ISSN: 2012-0788

Source: Rolando B. Tolentino, Humanities Diliman, Vol 7, No 2 (2010)