About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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read this…
Note to self: read this when you’re on a faster computer: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm
Posted in Hyptertexts, Queer issues and theory
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On Zarathustra’s Prologue
I just read the following from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra: To allure many from the herd—for that is the purpose I have come. The people and the herd must be angry with me: a robber shall Zarathustra be called by … Continue reading
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suggestions from gottlieb
“Ideological State Apparatus” by Althusur (sp?) – essay about how institutions control ideology Amanda Anderson’s recent book The Way We Argue Now on ethics and theory regarding argument
Posted in Suggestions from others, Thesis work
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link from my friend seth
Seth suggested I read this: http://thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm So I will some other time (back to school work!)
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language as action
After this quarter and reading some Burke and Foucault, I’m beginning to think quite a bit about how language is action. As a discipline, English, Rhetoric and Composition all too often views “artifacts” as products, not as actions. Thus, Bakhtin … Continue reading