About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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- Elizeth on Bersani (2010): Is the Rectum a Grave?
- Joe Schicke on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Ariane on the idea of a writing center
- Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - Hybrid Pedagogy on Miller’s “Genre as Social Action”
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Category Archives: Blogs in Classrooms
blogger’s naive individualism
cross-posted to my personal blog. Sara Jameson sent me this a while back, but I finally got around to reading it. I guess I kind of suck when it comes to doing things with any expediency…. But anyway, this blogger, … Continue reading
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sefer and the text
From Robert Alter’s “To the Reader” for his translation of Genesis: The biblical conception of a book was clearly far more open-ended than any notion current in our own culture, with it assumptions of known authorship and legal copyright. The … Continue reading
ideas from serfaty
As Sara and I think about our paper, we might keep some of the ideas from Serfaty’s book in mind, particularly: polyphony oralization community building conversation the use of humor embodiment and disembodimen gender fluid bodies
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on the self-reflexivity of online blogs
I’m still skimming/reading Serfaty’s book, and I just read about self-reflexivity. I think it’s interesting that she quotes/translates Lejeune: “the beginning of a diary is nearly always emphasized. People seldom begin without saying so. The new writing territory is staked … Continue reading
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how do bloggers blog so openly?
This is especially interesting after Sam asked me about me being worried that people might read my personal thoughts on my blog: How then can we account for the fact that the screen, which functions metaphorically as a veiling device, … Continue reading
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