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How do the majority of Filipinos in the Philippines, and to an extent locals of the Global South, live these days? US-based Filipino scholar, Neferti Tadiar, answers: that as “remainders”; they of “disposable lives” and as subalterns, agents of possible resistance in the liminalities of the “here” and “now.” She positions this condition of disposability, this “remaindered life,” also as an alternative mode of thinking and doing where survival ingenuity and splendour can flourish. This book extends her previous arguments in Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization—her examination of postwar Philippines through its revolutionary literature, the feminisation of labour prompted by the presence of U.S. military bases, to the growth of the exportation of human labour, and rise of “civil society” and social movements since the last two decades of the twentieth century to Rodrigo Dutererte’s drug war in Life-Times of Becoming Human.