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: October 2008
thesis epigraphs meme
Nels suggests a new “meme”: share the epigraph(s) of your dissertation. Well, the dissertation is a few years off for me, so my master’s thesis will work. Um, keep in mind that it was four chapters, with interchapters (yeah, it … Continue reading
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blogiversary
I just remembered that I started this blog three years ago on October 18. To commemorate, some evidence that our public discourse is no better than it was three years ago: I’m not sure what channel this is from, but … Continue reading
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tag cloud weekend!
I forgot to tag cloud last weekend. oh well. Here’s this weekend’s: I think this one looks beautiful!
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audience (un)addressed
Matt Weiss’s post on audience from a month or so ago got me thinking again about audiences. After reading up on Lyotard for my Watson Conference talk, I was struck by his take on audience in Just Gaming. Some thoughts: … Continue reading
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“always…”
“If we have learned anything in the years of late twentieth-century feminism, it’s that ‘always’ blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?” (Adrienne Rich, “Notes Toward a Politics … Continue reading