Agbisit - UST Philosophy Department

Faculty members

Gian Carla D. Agbisit

AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST, on-going), PhD (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, on-going)

gdagbisit@ust.edu.p

research

SPECIALIZATIONS

Aesthetics

Jean Baudrillard

French Contemporary Philosophy

professional affiliations

Instructor III, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas

Managing Editor, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy

educational background

M1 Esthétique Comparée (in-progress)

Université de Picardie Jules Verne, UFR Arts et UFR Lettres, Amiens, France

Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Philosophy (in-progress)

University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines

Master of Arts, Major in Philosophy (cum laude)

University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines
Thesis: A Political Reading of Jean Baudrillard’s Theory of Postmodern Society

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Philosophy (magna cum laude)

University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2011)
Thesis: Tracing Platonic Influences on John Rawls’s Concept of Justice

publications

“The Artist as Medium,” 300 Days of Sun, April 2022. (Upcoming)
“First and Last,” in Erotica of Eternity, (India: Wingless Dreamer Publisher, 2022).
“A Report on Teaching and Doing Philosophy in the Philippines: Critique and Intervention,” SURI: Journal of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines, Issue 9, No. 2, October 2021, with Paolo A. Bolaños, Jovito V. Cariño, Franz Giuseppe Cortez, Marella, Ada Mancenido-Bolaños, and Roland Theuas DS. Pada, https://suri.pap73.org/issue-14.html
“Legacy,” The Showbear Family Circus, March 7, 2021, http://lanceschaubert.org/2021/03/07/legacy/
“Police,” The Elevation Review, Issue 1, August 2020, https://www.theelevationreview.com/gian-carla-agbisit
“At Home,” The Elevation Review, Issue 1, August 2020, https://www.theelevationreview.com/gian-carla-agbisit
“The Poetry of Theory: Jean Baudrillard’s Philosophy as Fiction” in Forum for World Literature Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2019, http://www.fwls.org/uploads/soft/200201/1-200201230G2.pdf
“Adorno's Guilt,” Burnt Pine Magazine, Issue 3, Fall 2017, https://burntpine.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/adornos-guilt-by-gian-carla-agbisit/
“Madman,” Aji Literary Magazine, Fall Issue 2017, http://www.ajimagazine.com/issue-7-fall-2017.html
“Black Dog,” The Broke Bohemian, Spring Edition, April 2017, https://www.brokebohemian.com/spring-edition-1/2017/4/7/black-dog
“Eulogy,” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, October 2016, http://www.foliateoak.com/gian-carla-agbisit.html
“Hands,” Five on the Fifth: An Online Literary Journal, Issue 12, September 2016, http://www.fiveonthefifth.com/issue-12-hands-by-gian-carla-agbisit/
“The City as a Spectacular Monster and the Hysterical Baudrillardian Flâneur,” The Mabini Review, Volume 4, No. 1, 2015, http://paper.researchbib.com/view/paper/220882
“Baudrillard’s Vision of the Postmodern Society and the Hope for Human Action” in, Inquiries Journal/ Student Pulse, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 2014, http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/876/baudrillards-vision-of-the-postmodern-society-and-the-hope-for-human-action
“This Old House” in TOMAS: The Literary Journal for UST Creative Writing Center for Literary Studies, January 2013.

CORRESPONDENCES/PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION

“The Virus as the Other: A reply to Dr. Bolaños’ ‘Becoming-virus, ‘Life from the Point of View of a Virus’.” Published in PHAVISMINDA Journal 20 (2021). 164-169. https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/028b0f1b-224c-45f2-944a-0a4e4bbf7b2b/downloads/08%20RENNESLAND%20(Final).pdf?ver=1643335799721
“Solidarity and Immunological Reason.” Published in Journal of Public Health (30 March 2021). 121-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab107

paper presentations

(recent five)

Displacing Memories: On the Sanctity of Cultural Spaces and the Profanity of Time, will be delivered for Louisiana State University 7th Annual French Studies and Comparative Literature Graduate Conference to be held at Louisiana State University, USA on April 7-8, 2022.
Metaphor and Metamorphoses: On Becoming-Animal in Apulee and in Kafka, delivered for Parallel Sessions in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium held at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada last March 25-26, 2022.
The Use of Metaphor in Kafka’s Text, delivered for Parallel Sessions in the Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference held at University of Hawai’i, Manoa last March 16-17, 2022.
On Ethics, a lecture delivered to the students of Colegio De Dagupan Lecture Seminar Workshop, held via Zoom, last June 14, 2021.
Philosophy as Fiction, delivered for Parallel Sessions in the PAP Midyear Conference 2019 held at University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines last November 14-16, 2019.