About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
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Category Archives: Punk Pedagogy
punk resources
Suggestions from Robert Clark here in Eugene. These are on the syllabus for a class taught by Daniel Wojcik: Laing, Dave. 1978. Interpreting Punk Rock. Hebdige, Dick. 1979. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. in The Subcultures Reader 2nd ed. 2005. … Continue reading
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responses to my I-search essay
Today we got our I-search essays back (mine available as a pdf here) along with responses from classmates. It was really cool to get some feedback on an essay that I think was fairly risky. I wanted to write about … Continue reading
Elbow’s view on criticism, speaking, and writing
Peter Elbow writes: The contrast between the two media [speaking and writing] is reinforced when we turn to the story of how we learn to speak and to write as individuals. We learn speech as infants—from parents who love us … Continue reading
panopticism
I am in the middle of reading “Panopticism” by Foucault, and I’m certain I’ll be using this for my paper on punk pedagogy. Punk is about breaking discipline, about fighting discipline, and this essay is exactly about discipline, and it’s … Continue reading
punk aesthetic
From Geoffrey Sirc’s “Never Mind the Tagmemics: Where’s the Sex Pistols?” in CCC 44.1 (February 1997), pp 9-29: Punk’s was the aesthetic of the cut-up, re-making/re-modeling the materials of the dominant culture, detourning them from their bland, deadening use into … Continue reading