Keeping in time with the new materialist turn that aspires to respond to the common disregard to matter in Euro-Western tradition of thought while at the same time insisting the imperative to decolonize such turn, this essay attempts to articulate a Philippine rendition of new materialism, through the notion of bagay, nominated here as a thing whose materiality is intuited to be appropriately determinable concerning a particular moment. This attempt is extended through turning to Bagay poetry, “a concept, a proposition” (Lumbera 2005, 136) from the 1960s toward a Philippine poetics that is most attuned to the concreteness of things, instead of simply overlooking them—a disregarding impulse that is primarily attributed to the “platitudinous and emotional tendencies” (“Bagay Poets” 1965, 24) in Philippine poetry at the time which considers things as mere metaphors, if not symbols for anthropocentric sentimentalizations. Through harnessing then an attentiveness on things encouraged by the Bagay poetics, the materiality of bagay is then sensed in its utmost tropicality, that is, its capacity to turn into whatever.

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Bagay：阐明菲律宾热带地区的新唯物主义

与渴望回应欧洲-西方思想传统中普遍忽视物质的新唯物主义转向保持同步，同时坚持非殖民化这种转向的必要性，本文试图阐明菲律宾对新唯物主义的诠释，通过 bagay 的概念，这里将其命名为一种事物，其物质性被直觉认为可以在特定时刻适当地确定。这种尝试通过转向巴盖诗歌，“一个概念，一个命题”（Lumbera 2005, 136）从 1960 年代转向最适应事物具体性的菲律宾诗学，而不是简单地忽略它们——一种不顾一切的冲动，主要归因于“陈词滥调和情感倾向”（“ Bagay Poets” 1965，24) 在当时的菲律宾诗歌中，即使不是人类中心感伤的象征，也仅将事物视为隐喻。通过利用对巴盖诗学所鼓励的事物的关注，巴盖的物质性在其最大的热带性中被感知，也就是说，它可以变成任何东西。