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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notes from the interblags: porn, new media, and audaciousness
• via Feminist Philosophers, social networking sites have passed porn as the top attraction on the internet (Reuters). • Alex Reid searches the MLA job list and finds that more posts list “new media” and “digital” than “Shakespeare.” What does … Continue reading
Posted in New Media, Notes from the Interblags
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Madonna: Queer Theorist
In Crip Theory, Robert McRuer calls Madonna a queer theorist. I’m inclined to agree. I’m gonna break the cycle I’m gonna shake up the system I’m gonna destroy my ego
Posted in Queer issues and theory
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this made me giggle
“The other quotation you will not see an introduction without is Kant’s claim that reading Hume awoke him from his ‘dogmatic slumber’ — though it is doubtful that Hume would have thought he awoke Kant from anything at all” (xiv). … Continue reading
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Newcomb: “Totalized Compassion” (2007) and responses
In “Totalized Compassion: The (Im)Possibilities for Acting out of Compassion in the Rhetoric of Hannah Arendt” (2007), Matthew J. Newcomb works with Hannah Arendt’s dismissal of compassion, “call[ing instead] for a more critical form of compassion” (107). He does so … Continue reading
tag cloud fridays
I’m going to steal Julie‘s Tag Cloud Thursday idea and make it a Tag Cloud Friday for me.
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