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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Category Archives: Ethics
Lethem’s “The Ecstasy of Influence”
Neurological study has lately shown that memory, imagination, and consciousness itself is stitched, quilted, pastiched. If we cut-and-aste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks? (Lethem 68) I just finished February 2007’s Harper’s and there was a … Continue reading
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ethical egoism = unacceptably arbitrary
I’ve often wondered about ethical egoism (though I didn’t really have that term), the philosophy made popular by Ayn Rand that pretty much argues that you ought to act in your own self-interests; mainly, my interest has been in its … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Uncategorized
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