English @ SUNY Geneseo | Dillon Murphy | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/dmurphy/activity/ Activity feed for Dillon Murphy. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 db1292eb78e7be37490fb718244544b9 Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=484 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:03:25 -0500 ThumbnailAs a fan (but only occasional reader) of graphic novels myself, you’d be hard pressed to find a time when I’d renounce the medium as lacking in literary merit. Allison Bechdel’s Fun Home is no exception. I would […]

]]> fa6b323d0194e13c2331e0491d946dff Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=1497 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:47:36 -0500 Digital Humanities can be seen as a system of advancing the way in which we study literature; the inclusion of digital technology usually has a connotation of forward progress and efficiency, after all. There is […]

]]> 11cf0bb6d84357bb406e6c1e2ac21e4c Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Subversive Studies, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/25/subversive-studies/#comment-46 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:11:35 -0500 That’s a good catch about questioning whether or not someone may realize that they are taking part in performance; I guess it can be compared to Tactics from the first presentation where people are making cultural […]

]]> fd408405bfe792e00060fc8ec89a21b9 Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=417 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:59:10 -0500 At the closing section of About a Mountain we are informed by D’Agata himself that some of the details of the narrative were compressed “for dramatic effect only.” This can seem jarring to readers who have placed […]

]]> fd19df57d813bebdc72ee0226a30e86c Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=733 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:46:29 -0500 The word “queer” holds a mostly negative connotation these days; it means weird, strange, things that are disturbingly different. Historically, it’s been used as a pejorative term for homosexuals. To be queer is […]

]]> 214b2936cff44c9f779cb35257214aaf Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Social Hierarchies and "Marrying Absurd", on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/11/social-hierarchies-and-marrying-absurd/#comment-42 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:08:45 -0500 Do you see empathy as a way of bypassing these hierarchies? Being able to place yourselves in another’s shoes in order to fully understand their position in life is no easy task but it can allow you to see things […]

]]> 4bcf5fd4491b381a237e3ff8f5db99ea Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Michel de Certeau and Paper Basketball, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/14/michel-de-certeau-and-paper-basketball/#comment-41 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:51:51 -0500 If you pay attention you can see the power struggles that Certeau discussed taking place every day. On a regular basis I find myself sucked into the war against the establishment at my job, both tactically and […]

]]> 3b2458f8c905d859849f3381702f2e37 Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Sociology as a Cultural Study, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/16/sociology-as-a-cultural-study/#comment-40 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:44:21 -0500 One of the advantages of the ethnographical practices used by the Center was publishing their findings in the form of novels, or in Didion’s case essays. which Moran asserted gave them a large amount of freedom in […]

]]> 667e3e2da39361175656b24e982269d2 Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Lauren Slater's Heideggerian Truth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/08/lauren-slaters-heideggerian-truth/#comment-220 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:00:52 -0500 Lying takes on a whole new level when we take her philosophy, or at least the ones she mentions in the narrative, into account. This was a very good point to bring up that we haven’t discussed in class and your […]

]]> ef17db4deb4f7ff8b354e49f8e3a2fb2 Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Lies in Lying, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/05/lies-in-lying/#comment-216 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:39:55 -0500 The ethics of it are important but it’s such a gray area that I think I’ll be stuck with the answer of “yes, it’s unethical BUT…” for a long time. She took some creative license with it which is fair game as an […]

]]> bb0b957d4020b017e265827d7a3180d5 Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=348 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:59:30 -0500 I’ve been dwelling a lot on our conversations on the importance (or lack thereof) of Slaters’ diagnosis of epilepsy. By now I think we can mostly agree that whatever shred of epilepsy was in her life has been […]

]]> 74ced13f609ce3f91183358d44645874 Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Format Mapping, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/22/format-mapping/#comment-161 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:25:39 -0500 While researching the film I found out it had a subtitle at some point: ” A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation.” Sort of changes the whole […]

]]> c4f8c0024d67a67928ae8c4249f5acd9 Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=1256 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:23:44 -0500 Remember when Napster, that old mp3 downloading program, was caught up in a legal battle with the music industry? Many people on the sidelines supported Napster because downloading music is just an easier method […]

]]> 84f6993a2a23a1b7c4a56de16bac3215 Dillon Murphy joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4341/ Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:07:43 -0500 0 79981cd3d895345a2d748684afef8c5f Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=254 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:57:53 -0500 Before discussing the actual film, I’d like to share with you my expectations of it. Hearing a title like Sherman’s March, most people would surely expect a historical documentary (this can hardly be disputed as […]

]]> a8fd2101e7e7e7d990c54195381bfc7f Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Serial and the Dynamics of Nonfiction, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/14/serial-and-the-dynamics-of-nonfiction/#comment-147 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:23:59 -0500 I wouldn’t argue that audio is a viable replacement for text, and here are two pieces of anecdotal evidence, take them how you will:

1) How often do you text somebody instead of calling them?

2) I’ve been […]

]]> 4c0d2d29fedf906a6ac3d6d971ca36e9 Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Are You Listening?, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/are-you-listening/#comment-139 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:16:24 -0500 Looking at Sarah Koenig not just as a creative nonfiction writer but as a journalist by trade, I’m not sure just how much she allowed herself (or was allowed by her producers) to put in too much emotional guidance […]

]]> 3198f480e44fa9280778886943268400 Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=164 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:28:47 -0500 One of the most important aspects of a piece of writing is, time and time again, the author’s voice. When reading a piece of writing, the presence of the author’s voice depends on factors such as the level of […]

]]> ee2e056d722e75e4e12324c10ca00a68 Dillon Murphy commented on the post, Re-reading Interdisciplinarity , on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/12/08/re-reading-interdisciplinarity/#comment-36 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 01:52:03 -0500 I would attribute the impasse between Greeks’ low placement of engineering compared to our culture’s high esteem of it to two different meanings of the word, or at least different uses of the skills. The Greeks […]

]]> f5b20844d2d617c8e4c2b020429888ee Dillon Murphy joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4118/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 01:37:24 -0500 0 fc24ea4ba723fe7c2e9a433909f37320 Dillon Murphy wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=48 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:52:11 -0500 Joan Didion says it herself: she is not a “camera eye” (xiii). One would be hard pressed to argue that she is not a talented writer, especially when it comes to portraying a scene, of which there are many between […]

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