About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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blogs as lunchroom chatter
Geoffrey Nunberg writes in Blogging in the Global Lunchroom: Taken as a whole, in fact, the blogging world sounds a lot less like a public meeting than the lunchtime chatter in a high-school cafeteria, complete with snarky comments about the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs in Classrooms
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blogger’s naive individualism
cross-posted to my personal blog. Sara Jameson sent me this a while back, but I finally got around to reading it. I guess I kind of suck when it comes to doing things with any expediency…. But anyway, this blogger, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs in Classrooms, Uncategorized
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more from Lorde
From”Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger”: “I don’t like to talk about hate. I don’t like to remember the cancellation and hatred, heavy as my wished-for death, seen in the eyes of so many white people from the … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Social Justice
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some quotes from Audre Lorde
From “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”: My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to ue it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of … Continue reading
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Going Postal
In “Going Postal,” Worsham “argue[s] that if our commitment is to real individual and social change — change that would finally dissolve the relationship between pedagogy and violence — then the work of decolonization must occur at the affective level, … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Critical Pedagogy, Teaching Composition
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