SPECIAL ISSUE ‘Tuyaw’ , a Reminder of the Dead or Another Way to Talk about the Weather in the Age of the Super‐ Typhoon Christina Verano Carter 1 Abstract In the wake of mass calamity, one can discern emergent specters of collective memory, trauma, and mourning over human death as well as the destruction of human dwellings. In the Philippines, a for- mer Spanish and U.S. colony, recent history is resplendent with all manner of cataclysms ‐ from nat- ural disasters (earthquakes, typhoons) to mass destruction during war (Spanish‐American War and World War II). This essay is concerned with the ways in which dreams and the dead are not just after‐effects of events in linear‐time nor exclusively human affects. Drawing on scholars of experi- mental ethnography and postcolonial film theory converging on Gilles Deleuze's “time‐image” , dreams authored by the dead here are engaged as agentive fabulators on decay, destruction, and loss – first on the local level of experiencing disaster but further connecting that more broadly to loss of heritage sites and the possible future prospect of serial calamity augured by neoliberal devel- opment and climate change in the Pacific. Tan‐awa ang kapunawpunawan. Look at the horizon Bunok ba o delubyo ang nagpadulong Is that a cloudburst or a deluge coming O ang uhaw nga kaugan sa hulaw? Or the thirst that goes with the drought? Unsaon pagbasa ag panganod How do you read the clouds Kon ang daang kaalam wala na mag‐uyon When ancient wisdom no longer holds, Sa Lakaw sa panahon? Is left behind as time unfolds? Naputos og dag‐um ang kalibutan Darkness shrouds the world. Dan‐agi ang among dalan Star of morning Ipalayo mi sa katalagman Light our path Take us away from our calamity ‐“Unsaon Pagbasa ang Panganod?/How do you Read the Clouds?” by Grace Monte de Ramos (2014) Everything that has been shattered under the conditions of modernity has been shattered by the dream and its transcription. (Leslie, Dolbear, Truskolaski, 2016: 7) 1 Appalachian State University DOI: 10.1111/johs.12227 38 © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd J Hist Sociol. 2019;32:38–48. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/johs