Ruth Feuerstein is a BA student at the Literature department and The Multidisciplinary Program in Humanities at Tel-Aviv University. She is in charge of the search and documentation of literary materials in Israeli Archives for the Poetic Media Lab’s DIALOG project.
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This project examines the genre of the “statement of solidarity,” a prose form that has become increasingly widespread in recent months in the wake of anti-black police violence. Using basic text mining and natural language processing techniques to draw out overarching linguistic patterns, it considers the formal and rhetorical tropes of “solidarity” to better understand how the use of specific rhetorical structures and locutions correlate with public perception.
Poetic Thinking
Poetic Thinking
“Poetic Thinking Across Media” is a course at Stanford University offered to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Our goal is to examine the human aptitude to approach life and the worlds we inhabit poetically, that is in manners of writing, speaking, and artistic creation that are not governed by systematic reasoning. We will consider how poetic works across media raise personal, communal, ethical, and political dilemmas. Studying mythological, religious, literary, cinematic and virtual (web-based) works, we will ask how poetic works think-through or permit us to deliberate with others about how to live our lives by employing various rhetorical strategies and creating complex symbolic systems. Considering how a variety of thinkers, writers, and artists approach such notions as “orientation” or “pilgrimage,” we will also examine how they contemplate, poetically, what love, war, death, and life itself may mean.
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Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning
Stanford Dean of Research
Stanford Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
The Wallenberg Foundation