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: December 2008
Nietzsche on truth
Only through forgetfulness can man ever achieve the illusion of possessing a ‘truth.’ … What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations, which can have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished … Continue reading
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A Collage of 2008
John tagged me (in a non-obligated kind of way) for this meme, so i thought I’d oblige and share the title of the first post for each month in 2008 to start to wrap up the year: • January: i’m … Continue reading
“English Downfall”
via John Walter, here’s a video from Kairos, “leaked” by editor Cheryl Ball:
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a belated end of term wrap-up
So, after failing to get 15,000 academic words written in November, I created the same goal for December. Beat it early, but never updated my chart: 22,396 / 15,000(149.3%) I thought I’d share some word clouds from my papers this … Continue reading
the tv teaches me sexism is cool
I don’t watch television. That’s right, I’m one of those edu-macated snobby urban elites who is above televisions. One Who Thinks He Does The World Good By Abstaining From Television. Okay, I’m being all facetious and hyperbolic and whatnot, but … Continue reading
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