Poetic Justice in Obadiah

Poetic Justice: Louis Brandeis’s Epitaph

Louis said from the grave, If I am Remembered, don't make me a sham Of a nice Jewish boy, Or the life of a goy (Not to shul [1], Christmas tree [2], and ate ham [3]). False biography would be a flaw-Don't recount what would stick in my craw And thus bring me to grief. For my spiritual brief Was Democracy. Ideas. The law. (It is clear to me that there's a God. Justice comes from Him. But it's no...

Poetic justice or petty jealousy? The aesthetics of revenge

The growing body of research on workplace revenge has focused on morality-based principles (e.g., organizational justice) that people use to judge acts of revenge. By contrast, in the present research, we report findings from two studies that focus on aesthetics-based principles (e.g., the ‘‘beauty’’ of executing the act of revenge) that people use to judge acts of revenge. In Study 1, a qualit...

Poetic (In)Justice? Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence

Obadiah, a Child with a Numerical Obsession

In the strangeness of a new school and a new home, Obadiah stood aloof, watching?and counting. To him, it was a peculiar community?this one in which children did what they were told, and a curious house, too, where a shrill shriek of "When's Obadiah going to get his pie?" brought no response. So he watched with large grey eyes, and, because he could not help it, he counted, with swift, furtive ...

Designing Poetic Interaction in Space

An amount of research has risen growing concern of designing aesthetics of interaction in addition to function, usability, and pleasure of it. Beyond aesthetic interaction, we propose poetic interaction as a promising design genre. Based on Bachelard’s phenomenological approach, we suggest that poetic interaction design begin with imagination and expression-making of both material and computati...