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: English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005
radical shift in topic
Or not that radical. So, I had been considering that enormity of the topic I was considering, combined with my overly scrunched schedule, combined with the fact that I am fascinated by this blogging research idea, I have decided to … Continue reading
reflection on my audience
When I normally do research and then do brainstorming/freewriting/prewriting for a paper, I have a sole audience in mind: me. However, my last entry was a brainstorming/prewriting activity that was geared not just toward an audience of me, but to … Continue reading
toward a focus
Okay, so I’ve been thinking that with all my other work I have to do, that researching and diddling around in the larger issue is a bit too time-consuming at the moment, and that perhaps I should narrow down my … Continue reading
arts of the contact zone
Mary Louise Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone” Contact Zone is defined as: I use this term to refer to social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, … Continue reading
Cathy Acker
Lisa mentioned in class Tuesday Cathy Acker’s book, a violent and perhaps pornographic text that is composed by plagiarizing other texts. Look into this sometime.