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Tropical Technologist, Chia Amisola

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From the pisonet, aircon, data center, to the POGO — the Filipino is a weather machine

From the pisonet, aircon, data center, to the POGO by Chia Amisola In the archipelago, technology swells at every extreme. All matters are now in service of machines: land, sea, body, mind. The Filipino is a weather machine. Videos from a computer shop owned by Sio Samson during Typhoon Fabian, July 2021 There's a video of a computer shop in Cainta, Philippines where the floodwaters go up to the thighs. The boys have their headphones on, their polyester shorts hiked up, still playing Crossfire. Empty chairs and wrappers float up, and power cables run from the top of the room…

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