Dali-dali at dekonstruksyon: Poetika at politika sa panahon ng pinagmamadaling pagtula

Abstract

Abstract This paper studies the digital modes of producing and distributing Philippine poetry during the presidencies of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Benigno Aquino III, and Rodrigo Duterte. The corpus used for this study are various poems created and dispensed through online generators, single message service (SMS) or text messaging, and social media, Twitter in particular. Democratic access to these new technologies has given literary producers newer platforms to exercise creativity and to interrogate the times. Poetry production via digital platforms is both an exploration of the genre and of political praxis. This paper studies select digital poems traversing what Leonardo Dianzon expounded as the cultural traditions of panunudyo (parody) and panunuya (irony or sarcasm). Further, this paper explores how poets in this digital age have variably contributed to the literary continuum and protest tradition of the Propaganda Movement’s Marcelo H. Del Pilar.