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Mar 17, 2022 · A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete. Faced with the laughter generated by late-night comedians, Twitter trolls, and reality TV presidents, we must instead trace how laughter operates politically.
Laughter as Politics offers a novel account of laughter’s role in contemporary political life. A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete.
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Sep 22, 2009 · Summary. Here is the problem: the texts studied by historians of political thought are almost invariably systematic and discursive; they are rarely poems or plays or novels, and who could blame historians for such a choice.
Laughter As Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity (Edinburgh, 2022; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 19 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/, accessed 21 Jan. 2023.
May 31, 2021 · The current study investigates this balancing act and asks how satirists see their role in democratic discourse. While scholarly attention to the genre of satire has increased, interest in satirists themselves has been sparse, and the study thereby contributes new knowledge.
Jul 25, 2018 · While not dismissing these insights, this article argues that a more productive turn to political humour can be figured if one does not hope to find in it a possible trigger of social change, or even of a change in attitudes.
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Jan 10, 2014 · The ironic fate of Absalom and Achitophel is to be fully appreciated as one of the great political poems of the language and only partially comprehended as political argument. Recent criticism of the poem is marked by a widening discrepancy between the ways in which it is understood as verbal and as political artifact.
