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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Monthly Archives: January 2007
“No one wants to integrate into a sinking ship,” or reflections on Your Voice, Your Conference
“No one wants to integrate into a sinking ship,” according to Malcolm X (this is probably a paraphrase). Angela Davis, the keynote speaker at last week’s Your Voice, Your Conference: Awareness, Solidarity, Action quoted Malcolm X during her speech on … Continue reading
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writing is about space!
Why did it take me until graduate school to figure this out. It seems so obvious now, that writing and reading is a spatial experience, that we move through texts.
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What is woman?
Monday, January 22: I tried postdating this, but my version of WordPress won’t allow me to show postdated blog posts, so I’ll be periodically changing this post’s date so that it is at the top and can receive feedback. For … Continue reading
pacifist and pro-choice
In honor of Blog for Choice Day, I’m posting an essay that I published in one of my zines a few years ago (2003), about how I felt it wasn’t a contradiction to be a pacifist and to be pro-choice: … Continue reading
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media diary for Tuesday, January 16
Below the cut is my media diary for yesterday, Tuesday, January 16. I started to keep one for today, but I think I got a good idea of my habits of media consumption and production after two days, and I … Continue reading
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