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transcendental power is folded into the immanent plane of
everyday life, creating emotions such as shame, fear, and
betrayal in the subjects’ “intimate” encounters with
colonizers and totalitarian regimes. These emotions are both
the result of the characters’ affective responses to the
pressure of the historical present, and also the affect that
catalyzes their becoming otherwise. By means of scrutinizing
the formation of affective subjects in the complex colonial
histories of the Philippines, as revealed in
State of War
, the
paper aims to explore an alternative means of inheriting the
past and to reconfigure a postcolonial historiography based
upon an affective epistemology.
Key Words:
State of War,
affect, shame, fear, betrayal