Opis projektu
Jaką rolę odgrywa humor w polityce?
Humor może pomóc nam zrozumieć otaczający świat. Odgrywa też kluczową rolę w polityce. Projekt NoJoke, którego badacze otrzymali dofinansowanie Europejskiej Rady ds. Badań Naukowych, będzie poświęcony badaniem roli humoru w polityce. Badacze sprawdzą, czy komiczne reakcje stają się formatywnymi zjawiskami politycznej rzeczywistości. Wyjdą przy tym z założenia, że reakcje te przeniknęły do tkanki społecznej oraz stanowią część rzeczywistości ludzi, dzięki którym rozumieją siebie oraz innych, szczególnie osoby będące podmiotami politycznymi. Aby ustanowić nowe podejście do badania rzeczywistości politycznej, projekt będzie czerpał z antropologii polityki i polityczności, z badań nad humorem, satyrą i śmiechem oraz z antropologicznych osiągnięć w zakresie ontologii, epistemologii i metodologii.
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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.
Dziedzina nauki
Program(-y)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Temat(-y)
System finansowania
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Instytucja przyjmująca
60323 Frankfurt Am Main
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