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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Chronicling Workspaces
Inspired in part by Johndan Johnson-Eilola‘s Datacloud, I started chronicling my workspaces throughout the day on Twitter on Monday morning. After three days, I’ve chronicled a number of places I work, whether it’s reading for comprehensive exams, preparing for class, … Continue reading
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How to write a talk/presentation
A former middle school student of mine tweeted a link to this list how to write a paper in college/university. The list seems obviously old: who uses ICQ anymore? And Kazaa? Woah. Thought I’d follow suit with a new list, … Continue reading
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snowed
Last night it snowed somewhere between 12 and 14 inches — the whole town seemed concerned about the impending “snowpocalypse,” “snowmaggedon,” or in lolz, “snowMGz.” And it’s gorgeous out. I should have taken some pictures today during daylight, but Dana’s … Continue reading
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Latour (1993): We Have Never Been Modern
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour My rating: 5 of 5 stars This summary is probably going to be a bit flawed and definitely elides some of Latour’s critical moves. I really enjoyed reading this, and thought it … Continue reading
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the iowa winter
It’s kinda gloomy here today in southwest Iowa. I stole myself away from the parents’ farm to get some wireless internet fix at the tiny public library. The vacation’s been nice so far… read some old journal articles I’ve been … Continue reading
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