Daily Archive: November 9, 2010

Cartoonesque 17: That is (not) funny! 0

Cartoonesque 17: That is (not) funny!

Jokes can be funny, or not. What matters is who has the power to define what is funny and what the position of the target of the joke is. It is the transgressive quality of jokes that makes them funny but also very suitable for political uses. Which jokes are made at the responses to these jokes reveal important processes, hierarchies and discourse in society.