Corponomy Online

What narratives are embedded in Filipino bodies that precondition us for affective labour in the global service industry? Engaging such questions hijacks and unravels systems of labour and control both through and within colonised bodies. 

From pole and macho dancing to hostesses, princesses, superwomen and zoo creatures, Eisa Jocson’s body becomes an archive of performative labour techniques that unpack identity, class and gender formation, seduction politics and Filipino social mobility.