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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make your logic evident, Ms. Palin
One thing a lot of my students struggle with is making their logic evident for their claims and support. They can claim something and feel like they proved it with a few follow-up sentences, but often they’re using a different … Continue reading
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serial distractions
The Internet (broadly conceived) doesn’t distract me anymore like it used to. Sure, I still sometimes kill time by surfing from site to site and checking my email constantly and fiddling around on Facebook. But not like I used to. … Continue reading
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“revelation without revolution”
… it is obvious that Generation X cannot be understood or theorized using conventional approaches from youth culture or subcultural theory. Like Silent Bob, we cannot expect Xer popular culture to reveal or reflect the values of a generation. Instead, … Continue reading
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“we’re wrong, and Glenn Beck proves it”
Eric at The Philosophist blogged about Glenn Bleck and his ilk, and makes an important pedagogical point at the end. I don’t normally quote an entire blog post, but Eric’s is short and makes a good point: The one essential … Continue reading
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too many books
Perhaps I own too many books. I have five bookshelves overflowing with them. Tonight, I decided I don’t read enough fiction, and thought, hey, I want to re-read Lucy Corin’s Everyday Psychokillers, which I first read in a grad level … Continue reading
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