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Yea-Saying Laughter

2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13534645.2010.486666

1460-700X

Maria Hynes, Scott Sharpe,

Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969), p.324. 2 Michael Billig, Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour (London: Sage Publications, 2005). 3 See for example the recent edited collection, Dennis Bos and Marjolene T'Hart, Humour and Social Protest (International Review of History Supplements) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 4 Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p.131. 5 See for example, Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2002) and Marjolene T'Hart, ‘Humour and Social Protest: An Introduction’, in Humour and Social Protest, pp.1–20. 6 Scott Sharpe, Maria Hynes and Robert Fagan, ‘Beat Me, Whip Me, Spank Me, Just Make it Right Again: Beyond the Didactic Masochism of Global Resistance’, Fibreculture, 6 (2005) and also Maria Hynes, Scott Sharpe and Robert Fagan, ‘Laughing With the Yes Men: The Politics of Affirmation’, Continuum, 21:1 (2007), pp.107–121. 7 Jodi Dean, ‘Politics without Politics’, parallax 15:3 (2009), pp.20–36. 8 John Lippitt, ‘Nietzsche, Zarathustra and the Status of Laughter’, British Journal of Aesthetics, 32:1 (1992), p.39. 9 Matthew Gilbert, ‘Green Screen’, Boston Globe (22 June 2008), < http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/06/21/green_screen/> [8/4/2010]. 10 Michelle Hershman, ‘Sustainable Living: Theme of the Future or a One-Hit Wonder’, Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest, 10: 2 (2007). 11 Daniel W. Smith, ‘Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics’, Parrhesia, 2 (2007), p.71. 12 ‘Bad’ is the more usual term today, though Nietzsche would have used the term ‘evil’ in this context. 13 Claire Colebrook, Irony (London: Routledge, 2004), p.141 (original emphasis). 14 Claire Colebrook, Irony, p.141. 15 Claire Colebrook, Irony, p.88. 16 Daniel Smith, ‘Deleuze and the Question of Desire’, p.70. 17 Daniel Smith, ‘Deleuze and the Question of Desire’, p. 70. 18 Maria Hynes and Scott Sharpe, ‘Affected with Joy: Evaluating the Mass Actions of the Anti-Globalisation Movement’, Borderlands, 8:3 (2009). 19 The rupture of laughter brings this autonomy of the body to the fore dramatically, though it is as much a feature of the inactive body (see for example, David Bissell, ‘Comfortable Bodies: Sedentary Effects’, Environment and Planning A, 40:7, pp.1697–1712. 20 Michael Billig, Laughter and Ridicule, pp.169–170. 21 Marjolene T'Hart, ‘Humour and Social Protest’, p.1. 22 Simon Critchley, On Humour (London: Routledge, 2002), p.66. 23 Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester and Charles Stivale (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990). 24 Stephen Colbert, ‘I Am America (And So Can You!)’, (New York: Grand Central, 2007). 25 Gary Peters, The Philosophy of Improvisation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). 26 Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time, dir. Marty Callner (HBO Home Video, 1999). 27 Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense. 28 Gary Peters, Philosophy of Improvisation, p.105. 29 Mark Weeks, ‘Beyond a Joke: Nietzsche and the Birth of “Super-Laughter”’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 27 (2004), p.4. 30 Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, trans. Cloudesly Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Rockville, Maryland: ARC Manor, 2008). 31 Michael Billig, Laughter and Ridicule. 32 Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, p. 324. 33 Alena D'Vorakova, ‘Review of “Laughing at Nothing: Humour as a Response to Nihilism” by John Marmysz’, British Journal of Aesthetics, 45:1 (2005), pp.106–108. 34 Compare Simon Critchley, Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of commitment, politics of resistance (London: Verso, 2007). 35 John Lippitt, Nietzsche and the Status of Laughter, p. 40. 36 Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, p.178. 37 Isaac Asimov, cited by Marrie Bergman, ‘How Many Feminists Does it Take to Make a Joke? Sexist Humour and What's Wrong With It’, Hypatia 1 (1986), p. 68.