Comedy Against Work - Lane-McKinley, Madeline
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"When work is slowly killing us and destroying the planet and, at the same time, something impossible to imagine life without, Lane-McKinley considers the possibility of comedy as a revolutionary practice. By appealing to laughter-what Walter Benjamin called the most "revolutionary emotion of the masses," or as Audre Lorde put it, the "open and fearless underlining" of our capacity for joy-we can counteract many of our shared miseries under capitalism, including our relationship to work. But to think through these revolutionary aspects of comedy as a practice also involves troubling comedy's…mehr

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"When work is slowly killing us and destroying the planet and, at the same time, something impossible to imagine life without, Lane-McKinley considers the possibility of comedy as a revolutionary practice. By appealing to laughter-what Walter Benjamin called the most "revolutionary emotion of the masses," or as Audre Lorde put it, the "open and fearless underlining" of our capacity for joy-we can counteract many of our shared miseries under capitalism, including our relationship to work. But to think through these revolutionary aspects of comedy as a practice also involves troubling comedy's relationship to the global right turn of the last decade. Stand-up comedy's claims to the artistic freedom of hate speech in comedy represent a fascistic current of our world today, blurring the boundaries between left and "alt" right. Against this current, the book draws from a tradition of feminist critical utopianism, Marxist-feminism, and contemporary cultural criticism to reflect on an anti-fascist poetics of comedy, grounded in a critique of work"--
Autorenporträt
Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, professor, and Marxist-feminist with a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a founding member of Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, Entropy, GUTS, and Cultural Politics. She is also the author of the chapbook Dear Z and a contributor to The Museum of Capitalism.