Monthly Archives: September 2008

michael faris, welcome to penn state

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Michael

Because of my birthday last Tuesday, Li-Young-Lee’s reading on Thursday, sleeping most of Saturday, and a few other things that distracted me, I didn’t get as much done last week as I had planned. This meant that I pulled an … Continue reading →

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tag cloud fridays (a day late)

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Michael
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584: Weekly Position Paper #5: The Future of Typified Bodies and Identities

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Michael

In Chapter 3 of The Ethics of Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah notes that there are two interrelated questions we should ask regarding identities: “how existing identities should be treated; and what sort of identities there should be” (108). According to … Continue reading →

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educated souls and goth makeup in schools

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Michael

I love coincidence — it’s not “mere” as we would like to think, but instead useful. Just after finishing reading Chapter 5 of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Ethics of Identity, in which he devotes space to “Educated Souls” — the … Continue reading →

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coca-cola and the banality of evil

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Michael

Awhile ago, Joseph Orosco asked on his blog, How responsible are people, qua consumers, for the crimes committed by corporations operating in a globalized world? This is an interesting question, one I’ve thought about quite often over the last 10 … Continue reading →

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