Category Archives: publics

the ethics and effects of parody

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Michael

Chris’s comment on this post got me thinking a bit about parody, irony, and resignification. I wrote in my talk for the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference about the claim many have made that by calling Ann Coulter a “tranny” (or … Continue reading →

Posted in Identity and Identification, Internet culture, publics, Queer issues and theory | 2 Comments

Ann Coulter, the Liberal Blogosphere, and the (Straight, Liberal) Male Bond

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Michael

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 | 2 Comments

notes from the interblags, talk like a pirate day edition

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Michael

It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I refuse to celebrate (while it is fun, I feel somewhat uneasy about the whole concept, for reasons I can’t quite explain yet). Here’s some interesting stuff I want to catalogue/share: • Sometime … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, Gender, Internet culture, publics, Visual Rhetoric | 2 Comments

Lethem’s “The Ecstasy of Influence”

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Michael

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 →

Posted in Collage, Ethics, publics | 5 Comments

Asking Students to Write Online: Negotiating the Private and Public

Posted on April 29, 2007 by Michael

Here’s the PowerPoint for my presentation for Writing Intensive Curriculum on Friday. I’m not sure if it makes a lot of sense without me talking and the great discussion we had on Friday, but I thought I’d go ahead and … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs in Classrooms, Privacy, publics | 1 Comment