Description du projet
Toute plaisanterie mise à part, quel rôle joue l’humour en politique?
L’humour peut nous aider à donner un sens au monde qui nous entoure. Il joue également un rôle clé en politique. Financé par le Conseil européen de la recherche, le projet NoJoke explorera le rôle de l’humour en politique. Il s’agira de vérifier si les réactions comiques deviennent des phénomènes formateurs du présent politique. Cela suppose que ces dernières se sont infiltrées dans le tissu social et dans la manière dont les gens s’approprient leurs univers de vie et donnent un sens à leur propre vie et à celle des autres en tant qu’acteurs politiques. Pour établir une nouvelle approche de l’étude du présent politique, le projet s’appuiera sur l’anthropologie de la politique et du politique, sur des études sur l’humour, la satire et le rire, et sur les avancées anthropologiques en matière d’ontologie, d’épistémologie et de méthodologie.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
60323 Frankfurt Am Main
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