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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- Elizeth on Bersani (2010): Is the Rectum a Grave?
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- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
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Category Archives: Race
notes from the interblags: olympics, technology, race, and diets
• via Clay Spinuzzi, this great comparison of an original NY Times piece on the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese translation for a Chinese newspaper. The new copy omits anything that could be construed as negative, and even adds in … Continue reading
Posted in New Media, Notes from the Interblags, Race, Vegetarianism
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“in the American city, at the millennium, the why has ceased to exist.”
via feminist philosophers, David Simon, executive producer and writer of the HBO series The Wire, has a piece in the Guardian addressing a recent draft of a report that found that jurors in Baltimore were less likely to convict defendants … Continue reading
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Clough and Loges: “Racist Value Judgments as Objectively False Beliefs” (2008)
In “Racist Value Judgments as Objectively False Beliefs: A Philosophical and Social-Psychological Analysis,” Clough and Loges “argue that racist value judgments express beliefs that are objectively false” (77). Drawing on Donald Davidson and social science, they argue that racist value … Continue reading
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rhetorical listening
Jim Brown’s recent post reminds us to listen, and I’m thinking about how I can listen when issues of race come up. I’m finding it more and more difficult to listen to white folks who deny that institutional racism and … Continue reading
how to tell someone they did something racist
A video via The Bilerico Project: Nothing extremely new here, but he does raise the point about people who are told they did something racist, but then talk about how they are not racist. It seems to me that even … Continue reading
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