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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images of the not unforeseeable
In Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Derrida argues that “September 11″ is not an event (in the sense that Heidegger uses the term) because, in part, it was not unforeseeable. Of course, … Continue reading
“I will fight for the little guy”
Via Viz. I have to be honest: I haven’t followed a second of Oregonian Senate electoral politics (even while my fingers and eyes have been glued to CNN and NPR’s websites on the presidential primaries). However, these ads are pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Visual Rhetoric
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The Future is Now: Presentation to the RU Board of Governors
From the WPA listserve (which I just joined a few days ago), Richard Miller’s 7-minute presentation to the Rutger University’s Board of Governors: I would say that the Humanities, in the last 10-20 years, somewhat lost its way in becoming … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Literacy, New Media
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ethics in technical communication
I’m reading my technical writing students’ homework on ethics in documents. They were assigned to find an article, advertisement, or other document that contains untrue or misleading information and discuss (in a memo to me) the ethics behind it. In … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, WR327: Technical Writing
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