Monthly Archives: January 2018

Berlant’s article titled “The Predator and the Jokester” explain the relationship between the two figures and how they both are able to wield power; a predator creates exploitable situations and is able to maintain control over them through the feeling that they “control the interactive space and that they’re unavoidable,”...Read more …

Hobbes’ piece is about comedy that hinges on the superiority theory, saying that we laugh at the misfortune of others and derive entertainment from feeling superior to other people. Kant proposes that “Laughter is an affect that arises if a tense expectation is transformed into nothing,” a statement which is...Read more …