Reyes - UST Philosophy Department

Faculty members

Raniel SM. Reyes

Assistant Professor II

AB (PUP), MA (Christ the King Seminary), PhD (UST)

rsreyes@ust.edu.ph

ORC ID#: 0000-0003-3742-2007

Scopus Author ID: 56226564500

research

SPECIALIZATIONS

Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, French and German Critical Theory, Philosophical Research

INTERESTS

Franco Berardi, Byung-Chul Han, Social and Political Philosophy

professional affiliations

Assistant Professor V, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas

Fellow, Research Center for Culture, Arts and Humanities, UST

Managing Editor, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy

Member of the following philosophical associations:

Philosophical Association of Northern Luzon
Philosophical Association of the Philippines
Philosophical Association of the Visayas and Mindanao
Social Ethics Society
Philippine Communication Society

recognitions received

GRANT

RCCAH Research Grant (2017 – onwards)
CHED Dissertation Writing Grant (2018)
International Financial Grant (Bounds of Ethics), Christ University, Bangalore India (2014)

AWARDS

Published Paper Award (Arts & Humanities Cluster), UST Graduate School Solemn Investiture, June 8, 2019

educational background

Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2011-2018)
Dissertation: "Becoming-Revolutionary: A Reconstruction of Gilles Deleuze’s Micropolitics" (Benemeritus)

Master of Arts, Major in Philosophy (cum laude)

Divine Word Mission Seminary (SVD), Quezon City (2006-2010)
Thesis: "The Role of Nietzschean Aesthetics on the Reconstruction of Modern Political Life"

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Philosophy

Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila (2001-2005)
Thesis: An Analysis of the Modernist Critique of Religion: Nietzsche and Marx on Revolutionary Praxiology

publications

BOOKS

Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of ‘Becoming-Revolutionary’ (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Permanent Revolution: A Schizoanalytic Philosophy of Therapeutic and Revolutionary Transformation,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 21:1 (January 2020), 89-112.
“Deleuze and Guattari’s Geophilosophy: the Fabulation of a People-to-come and Becoming Revolutionary,” Philippiniana Sacra: Official Publication of the UST Ecclesiastical Faculties, LV: 164 (January-April 2020), 75-100.
“Becoming-Democratic as Becoming-Revolutionary,” Kritike: An On-line Journal in Philosophy, Special Issue, 12:3 (April 2019), 68-95.
“The Revolutionary Spinoza: Immanence, Ethology, and the Politics of Desire,” Kritike: An On line Journal in Philosophy, 11: 1 (June 2017), 197-217.
“Deleuze’s Bergsonism: Multiplicity, Intuition, and the Virtual,” Kritike: An On-line Journal in Philosophy, 10: 2 (December 2016), 151-172.
“Neoliberal Capitalism, ASEAN Integration and Commodified Education: A Deleuzean Critique," Buddhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture, 19:2 & 19:3 (2015): 135–168.
“The ‘False’ of Contemporary Philippine Society: Adorno, Immanent Critique and Popular Music,” Baybayin (International Journal of Tagalog Studies, Philippine Studies, Southeast Asian Studies and Filipino Philosophy), 1:1 (August 2015), 68-89.
“Tungo sa Isang Deleuzian na Pagbabasa ng Pagsibol ng Post-Anarkismo sa Pilipinas,” Malay: Research Journal (International), 27:2 (April 2015), 55-68.
“Deleuze and the Possibility of Revolutionary Ethics,” Interactions: Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Studies, (April 2015), 71-90.
“Deleuze contra Hegel: the Rupture of the Dialectics towards Non-Conceptual Difference,” Kritike: An On-line Journal on Philosophy, 9:1 (December 2014), 119-138.
“Cybersex, Bodies, and Domination: An Immanent Critique of Cyber-technology and the Possibility of Emancipation,” Filocracia, 1:2 (August 2014), 29-52.
“Subjugation, Immanent Critique, and Cruz: Adorno on Aesthetics and the Possibility of Emancipation,” Kritike: An On-line Journal of Philosophy, 8:2 (June 2014) 119-135.
“A Deleuzian Reading of the EDSA Revolutions and the Possibility of Becoming-Revolutionary Today,” Asia Pacific Social Science Review, De la Salle University, (June 2014), 59-74.
“Deleuze’s Control Society and the ‘Eye’ of the Empire,” Suri, Philosophical Association of the Philippine Journal, 3:1 (2014), 89-105.
“The Experience of Difference: Re-thinking the EDSA Revolution as an Exemplar of Ascending Life,” Tattva Journal of Philosophy, Christ University Department of Philosophy, Bangalore, India, (January-June 2013).
“Subjectivity within the Spaces of Disciplinarity: Michel Foucault’s Ethics of Existence” Dialogos (Adamson University Social Science Department Journal), 1:1 (July 2012), 44-70.
“Cybersex, Human Sexuality, and Degeneration,” Global Conference on Ethics in Science and Technology, University of Santo Tomas, Philippiniana Sacra: Official Publication of the UST Ecclesiatical Faculties, XLVII: 140 (Special Issue, 2012), 514-518.

paper presentations

(recent five)

“The Cognitariats in the Age of Pandemic, The Crisis of Critical Theory: Critical Theory From and Beyond the Margins, Zoom Meeting/Conference, a co-sponsored project by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macau and the Department of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas, October 24, 2020.
“Schizoanalysis as Becoming-Revolutionary,” Department of Philosophy Inaugural Lectures, University of Santo Tomas, November 22, 2019.
“The Concept of ‘People’ in Deleuzo-Guattarian Philosophy,” Bulawagang Balagtas, NALLRC, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, August 13, 2019.
Becoming-Democratic as Becoming-Revolutionary,” 2019 Philosophy Week Celebration, Divine Word Mission Seminary, April 11, 2019.
“On Becoming-Nomadic, Minoritarian, and Motherless,” 6th Deleuze & Guattari Studies in Asia International Conference to be held in conjunction with 2018 PAP National Conference at the Ateneo de Naga University, Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines, July 5-7, 2018.