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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time travel is now possible on webpages
Via Dennis, who calls this “One step closer to Nerdvana,” this video at Technology Review, which explains the new tool Zoetrope. Zoetrope allows a user to view how a webpage, or even part of a webpage, changes over time. According … Continue reading
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pre-emptive plagiarizing
Dinosaur comics seems to have it right:
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wrapping up the term
I just finished a draft of my final Identity, Rhetoric, and Writing paper, which is on ZAP, the 1970s newsletter put out by the student group Homophiles of Penn State. Now, all I need to do, as I relayed on … Continue reading
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drat you bloglines!
My bloglines account, sometime within the last week when I wasn’t looking, dumped all my unread posts, so now I have no idea what I might have missed. It’s all just been dumped into the ether of unread internet stuff. … Continue reading
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november writing: fail!
For the month of November I created the goal of writing 15,000 words for academic writing. I wound up writing only 6,802 words. 6,802 / 15,000(45.3%) This is largely because I meant to write a lot of Thanksgiving Break, but … Continue reading
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