About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
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Category Archives: Ethics
Clough and Loges: “Racist Value Judgments as Objectively False Beliefs” (2008)
In “Racist Value Judgments as Objectively False Beliefs: A Philosophical and Social-Psychological Analysis,” Clough and Loges “argue that racist value judgments express beliefs that are objectively false” (77). Drawing on Donald Davidson and social science, they argue that racist value … Continue reading
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Butler: questioning truth, questioning the self
Thus if I question the regime of truth, I question, too, the regime through which being, and my own ontological status, is allocated. Critique is not merely of a given social practice or a certain horizon of intelligibility within which … Continue reading
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the problem with engineering ethics
My friend Luke is working on his M.A. thesis in applied ethics. It’s on ethics in engineering, and while doing some web research, he came across Texas State University professor Karl Stephen‘s blog, where he argues that same-sex marriage is … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Queer issues and theory, Social Justice
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from Giving an Account of Oneself
“The value of thought is measured by its distance from the continuity of the familiar.” (Adorno, Minima Moralia, qtd. in Butler 3) “[E]thical deliberation is bound up with the operation of critique. An critique finds that it cannot go forward … Continue reading
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the rhetorics of diversity
Victor Villaneuva has a post over at the CCCC blog titled Rhetorics of Racism. It’s a great read, critiquing rhetoric used around racism, drawing on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s four tropes of racism (abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism/biologicization of racism, and minimization), … Continue reading
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