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Evangelista uses the first section (Memory) to profile Duterte: his genealogy and history, his opportunities, his persona, his politician friends and family, his Davao Death Squad, leading up to the 2016 national elections. Barring Chapter 1 setting the tone of strongarm violence, she chronicles Duterte's, Davao City's, and the Philippines' overlapping histories as equally complicit in the War on Drugs' toll.
— Feb 07, 2024 09:04PM
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Part II: Carnage is self-explanatory, but in the process of reconstructing the events that lead to and after murders, Evangelista paints a picture of how the carnage is justified, normalized, and thus dissected from its brutality and viscera. Paired with Part I: Memory, Carnage continues the trend of profiling how a culture has warped its view of human life, institutional law enforcement, and mortality.
— Feb 14, 2024 02:05AM
