Kritika Kultura is an open-access peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies, published three times a year by the Literary and Cultural Studies Program of Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
Current Issue: No. 50 (2026)
Front Matter
Front Matter
Kritika Kultura
Editor's Introduction
Introduction
Vincenz Serrano
Regular Section
Blue Humanities Currents: Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140
Simon C. Estok
Forum Kritika on Reading Fredric Jameson in Asia: Marxism, Literature, and Postmodernism
The Violence of Abstraction: Fredric Jameson, the “Asiatic Mode,” and the Problem of Asia
Maria Luisa Torres Reyes and Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Why National Allegory Stopped Its Vacation in Turkey?
Koray Kırmızısakal
Reconfiguring "National Allegory" in a Critique of the Philippine Neocolonial Experience
Epifanio San Juan Jr.
Bangon! A Critical Analysis of Selected Songs of the Philippine Revolutionary Struggle
Jervy C. Briones
Beauty Is What Hurts: Eka Kurniawan and the Dialectics of Postmodernism in the Wake of Authoritarianism
Reuven Pinnata
Neoliberal Postmodernism, the Cultural Logic of Buji’s Storytime: A Case Study on the Political Economy of the Commodified Influencer
Ma. Rosa Cer Bragais
Forum Kritika on Waves of Emotion: Theorizing Archipelagic Affects (Part II)
The (Re)Turn of the Tides: More on Archipelagic Affects
Jeremy De Chavez
Island as Mechanism: Island Narrative and Affective Landscapes in Ng Kim Chew’s “Fish Bones” and “Allah’s Will”
Chi Miao and Shu Li
Building Ties, Connecting Islands: Api Kartini's Longing for an Affective Community During the Cold War
Asri Saraswati
Between Spectacle and Struggle: Representations of the Sea in Indonesian Popular Visual Culture
Susanne A. H. Sitohang and Teguh Prasetyo
Non-Violent Re-Articulation of Masculinities: Art, Youths, and Peace Preservation in Post-Conflict Ambon Island
Wening Udasmoro, Leo Marai, Russell Soaba, Philip Aratiso, and Jemmy Talakua
Review Essay
What Can Deleuzians and “Third World” Radical Social Movements Learn from Each Other? Reflections on Alex Taek-Gwang Lee’s Communism After Deleuze
Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya
Literary Section
From Arachne's Hubris
Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz
Sharp Inhale in the Shadow of a Monument
Pauline Lacanilao Arnould
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