slant school is an independent artistic-pedagogic project that organizes aesthetic experiments toward new forms of study.

slant school lecture series

The slant school public lectures were a series of three aesthetic-pedagogic experiments written and organized by Carissa Pobre. Held in and around Metro Manila, Philippines in April 2025, the lectures offered a socio-poetic framing on the social formation of the Global South intellectual-activist, notably Global South writers and artists who often resist ‘from the side of’ remaindered life. Each experimental lecture was constructively organized with collaborative methods and inquired respectively into class politics, education and the university, and sense of place. The lectures and all their writings, materials, and documentation are independently self-published.
 
sociology aslant (re)reading and (re)writing social relations under duress of the world order
development aslant disarming the university: a dialogue
ecocriticism aslant contending with place: postcolonial writers and the politics of the town
 
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Carissa Pobre (she/they) is a writer, strategist, and educator who grew up in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Her writings and work—comprising creative writing, community collaborations, and art as pedagogy—often enquire into the socio-spatial formation of ‘writing lives’. With 10 years’ experience in multicultural and multisectoral spaces, she has actively worked to shape conversations in societal and cultural transformation through radical socio-poetics and culturally and ecologically regenerative modes. Her multidisciplinary practice traverses topics on literature and art, class, and social action. In 2024, she was a participating artist at the SOMA international program in Mexico City for artistic and critical inquiry into collaborative pedagogical models. She is completing a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Interdisciplinary Art and Regenerative Culture under Confluence MFA, a field-based program to advance arts-based strategies for social engagement, at University of New Mexico. She is the author of Compositions (Everything’s Fine Press, 2023) and Formations (self-published, 2021), two books of essays and poetry that reckon with the autocritical and agency in language and art in various ways. For three years, she was the co-steer of the Agam Agenda climate-culture initiative that reimagined discourse on the climate crisis through storytelling and creative mobilizations, and produced the award-winning anthology Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis (Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities/Milflores Publishing, 2021). She is also co-editor of Makisawsaw Recipes x Ideas: Community Gardens Edition (Gantala Press, 2021), together with citizen action groups that organize community kitchens and urban food gardens in Metro Manila. She has also taught creative writing, focused on the essay as form, at Ateneo de Manila University. Beginning with an inaugural series of experimental lectures in April 2025, slant school is their lifelong artistic-pedagogic project.
 
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This work is indebted to support from Akemi Elgar, Ninon Espiritu, Ramya Espiritu, Joanna Fabricante, Laetitia Franco, Lia Gutierrez, Stefano Harney, a. r. havel, Billie Lee, Bea Mariano, Mary Mattingly, Padmapani L. Perez, Precious Santos, and Rhenzy Urmeneta. With immense thanks to my Graduate Committee: Szu-Han Ho, Kency Cornejo, Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris), and Vincenz Serrano.
 
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