Michael Benton: Writing Examples

“'He Could Resist': The Lexington Tattoo Project and A Noosed Life."

If a Tree Falls: Enforcing the Green Scare

A Nation Starts to Mobilize: Something's Happening Here

Getting Off On John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Fragile victory in Egypt: Will U.S. foreign aid impede the will of the Egyptian people?

Violence and Film

Straightlaced: How Gender Has All Tied Up

Response to Jarhead

Some Questions I Have About the World

On Feminism

Oikos ... random thoughts on a sleepless night

James Allen: Without Sanctuary; The Debate Over the Hanging of a Barack Obama Effigy on the Campus of the UK; The History of Lynching in America

Here There Be Monsters: A Response to the Public Outcry Surrounding the San Diego High School Shootings

City of God, Schindler's List and Contextual Viewings

"The Stars are Projectors": A Modest Appreciation of Modest Mouse

The Moonshine Clans of the Alphane Mountains

Animalogos

On Anarchism

American Sex and Sexuality 3.0

The Politics of Meat 3.0

"Be Me, for Awhile": Ideological Becoming and Future Objectivity in Let the Right One In

I Am Past Imperfect

Thoughts on Blogging by a Poorly Masked Academic

Rhetorics of Place: The Importance of Public Spaces and Public Spheres

What We Write and Why (as part of a group of editors--collective piece)

Learning From "El Mexterminator" and "Cyber Vato": Social Anxiety as a Performative Pedagogy

Quentin Tarantino, King of the Mooks - One Basterd’s Inglourious Response

Gender and Sexuality at the Carnegie Center

So Long, It's Been Good To Know You: Remembering Howard Zinn (with Michael Marchman)

Recovering the Commons: A conversation with Herb Reid and Betsy Taylor

Collective Cinephilia/Steve McQueen's Hunger

Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy/Michael Benton: Thinking About 21st Century Multiliteracies

Learning From the Dahlai Lama?

Pantheist Anarchists: Should We Fear Them?

Teacher Reflection

Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

True Literacy (Pastiche)

Darren Aronofsky Initiates a Fictional Derive 3.0

Doctorow's City of God

Environmental English Studies: The Poetics of Relation

Mort Rosenblum's Escaping Plato's Cave; Carlotta Gall's Story; Taxi To the Dark Side

Film and the Meaning of Life

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Notes on Parker Palmer's "Community of Truths"

On Thinking

Ph.D Exams and Fools Crow

Reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus

Response to Marleen S. Barr's "Grizzly Gidget Goes to the Whitehouse"

What is the Most Fun I Ever Had