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: Feminism
notes from the interblags, the back from Europe edition
Here’s some interesting reads: • I’m fascinating by issues of privacy and online social networking, and this time, it’s related to the double standard between young men and young women. Feministing links to this CNN article about young women posting … Continue reading
the rhetoric of pink
I’m in my hotel in Frankfurt with pretty poor wireless connection stolen from elsewhere, but I thought I’d pass on this brief NY Times article about the use of pink in visiting football locker rooms as a psychological strategy at … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Feminism, Gender, Queer issues and theory, Visual Rhetoric
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notes from the interblags: thanksgiving edition
I’ve found that my blog reading is much like my magazine reading. I’m always behind and have a stack of stuff to read when I get around to it. • via Clay Spinuzzi, Hello, My Name is Bob, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Desire, Feminism, Internet culture, Queer issues and theory
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Ann Coulter, the Liberal Blogosphere, and the (Straight, Liberal) Male Bond
Here is my talk from The Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference last week. I’ll put the abstract here and the talk below the cut. I also added links within the text to blogs I discuss. To forefront on concern of mine … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Blogs, Feminism, Gender, Internet culture, Presentations, publics, Queer issues and theory
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queer in little rock; or, composing bodies
Scene 1: Sarah, Luke, and I have been in Little Rock for only a few hours Wednesday night and decide to see what the city’s like. With the help of Google, we find a piano bar that seems kind of … Continue reading