At The Edges of Command: Conversations and Reflections on Remaindered Life

This is a global story, certainly, but it is also a story of a great forgotten: the role of the Philippines and its peoples in the making of US global power—the role of the colonial decimation of the Philippines and its human and nonhuman inhabitants at the hands of US power since the late nineteenth century until this very day; the legacies of that relation for empire as a way of life, a mode of global capitalist dominance; the role of and cost to Filipinos of imperial wars in other regions such as West Asia; the role of our own disposability in upholding an American way of life spread everywhere—but also the role of our survival and life-making in the expansion of this mode of life in the age of platform capitalism.”