01 / Exhibit A-01
Oral Hystery
A viral trend of eating literal filth becomes the lens for everything we swallow online.
Classified: an allegory for the feed
DisinformationViralityCapitalismSmart-shaming
ConfidentialSubject: J.C. MalvarOccupation: Author · PlaywrightStatus: at large
Life underSiege
Jose Carlos “Siege”Malvar files satire as evidence — books and plays that make the metaphor literal until you can’t look away. You’re holding the case.
↓ Declassify
The Bibliography
Exhibits in evidence. Read at your own risk.
02 / Exhibit A-02
Team Building
The staff of a snack-food giant are flown to a retreat. Only one of them comes back promoted.
Classified: the promotion is a body count
Corporate cultureLaborClassAmbition
03 / Exhibit A-03
Strat Planning
Back at Philippine Nutrition Inc., where the aircon is Antarctic and the strategy is survival.
Classified: language that means nothing
Corporate cultureLanguagePower
Method statement
He takes the thing a country would rather keep quiet — disinformation, dynasties, the quiet violence of the workplace — and files it back as evidence you can’t stop reading.
Four books, each in a form of its own invention — an interview transcript, a chat thread, a battle-royale org chart. One recurring stage dynasty. Every one a Trojan horse.
On the boards
A dynasty that only ever governed itself.
Set E · Revisited
Exhibit B-01Live
A political satire in one act
Presidential
Suite #2
Dir. Johnnie MoranVirgin Labfest XX–XXI
CCP · ManilaEncore
Presidential Suite #2
A biting, hilarious peek behind the closed doors of a political family that only ever governed itself.
Senator Zaragoza — author of the landmark Zara-Gulay Act of Carrot Importations — collapses from a heart attack mid-Senate-hearing while facing accusations of laundering money through charitable institutions.
Political dynastiesCorruptionFamilyReligion
Subject fileWho is Siege
The author on record
“The government has no use for smart people. The government needs people who eat shit.”
— Oral Hystery. It reads like a joke until you notice it’s a diagnosis. That’s the whole method.