Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times by Madeline Lane-McKinley

Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times

Madeline Lane-McKinley

240 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction politics
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Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political. Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the ...

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