Projektbeschreibung
Scherz beiseite: Welche Rolle spielt Humor in der Politik?
Humor kann uns helfen, der Welt um uns herum Sinn zu verleihen. Er spielt auch in der Politik eine zentrale Rolle. Finanziert über den Europäischen Forschungsrat wird das Projekt NoJoke die Rolle des Humors in der Politik erforschen. Es wird prüfen, ob komische Reaktionen sich zu formativen Phänomenen der politischen Gegenwart entwickelt haben. Diese Idee beruht auf der Annahme, dass diese komischen Reaktionen in das Sozialgefüge und die Art, wie die Menschen sich ihre Lebenswelt zu eigen machen und sich selbst und anderen wie zum Beispiel Politikerinnen und Politikern Sinn verleihen, eingedrungen sind. Um einen neuen Ansatz zur Erforschung der politischen Gegenwart zu verfolgen, bezieht sich das Projekt auf die Anthropologie der Politik und des Politischen, auf Studien zu Humor, Satire und Gelächter sowie auf anthropologische Strömungen in der Ontologie, Epistemologie und Methodologie.
Ziel
Something weird is happening in politics. Satirical parties, comedic journalism and memeification are gaining more and more traction; the slippages between parody and sincerity, play and earnestness, real and fake, ridicule and seriousness have proliferated at a dizzying rate. Global entanglements, new technologies, and the surge in populist politics are producing a cacophony of intricate cognitive, social, and economic dissonances bordering on the absurd. The underlying hypothesis of NoJoke is that these dissonances, and the comical reactions produce, have become formative phenomena of the political present; they have seeped into the social fabric and into the ways in which people appropriate their lifeworlds and make sense of themselves and others as political actors.
The practice of humour, NoJoke argues, can help us to make sense of the political present; it offers a unique methodology of discovery, a specific education by attention with regards to dissonances that elude conventional academic methods. Bringing together insights from the anthropology of politics and the political, from studies on humour, satire and laughter, and from anthropological advances in ontology, epistemology and methodology, NoJoke will conduct research with humour and humourists, and not merely on them, and establish a radically new approach to the study of the political present. Through a long-term comparative study with caricaturists, comedians, writers of satire, satirical politicians and comedic journalists in Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Caracas, Johannesburg and the Iranian diaspora, it will follow three objectives: (1) to explore the intrusion of humour and humourists into the field of politics; (2) to articulate a theory of humour as an epistemic practice ? a mode of perception, creation and anticipation ? in and of the political present; (3) to launch an alternative practice of academic knowledge production by converting the heuristic of punchlines into a practice of theory.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thema/Themen
Finanzierungsplan
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Gastgebende Einrichtung
60323 Frankfurt Am Main
Deutschland