Piracy Regulation and The Filipino’s Response to Globalization

…to be middle class in this country is to simulate the real by means of the imaginary, with piracy falling more in the lines of the imaginary than the real—the imaginary is as real as the real itself for a lot of wannabe middle-class citizens.

interesting research article hehehehe


Piracy Regulation and The Filipino’s Response to Globalization

Abstract The essay examines the racial discourse of Moros and Moro-profiling by the state in piracy—sea piracy in olden times and media piracy in contemporary times. Moro piracy becomes a local cosmopolitanism in the Philippines’ attempt to integrate in various eras of global capitalism. From the analysis of media piracy, the Moro “dibidi” (pirated DVD) seller becomes the body that mediates between the Filipinos’ middle-class fantasy of a branded lifestyle and the reality that most Filipinos do not have full access to global consumerism. Using a cultural studies framework, the essay draws a connection between seemingly unlinked events and sources, allowing for a historical and social dialog, past and present, to mix, creating junctures for sites of dialog and critique.


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