“Sensing Manila directs us to another trajectory of urban and Manila studies—how we make sense, using senses, of our beloved city. Weaving a diverse range of tropes—from Philippine literature, ethnography in a gay bar, and videoke to fastfood consumerist subcultures, among others—Gary Devilles offers a sensible and sensitive mapping of Manila as amalgam for Metro Manila and the nation’s premier cosmopolis, and within global neoliberalism. It is a captivating and mesmerizing critical read of the formation and transformation of Manila, and its consequences for Philippine and global localities and identities.”
—ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO, University of the Philippines Film Institute