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Foucault on Laughter

Summary/Abstract: In my essay I am not going to construct a general theory of laughter in Foucault's works. That would have been a radical and challenging task though, and I slightly regret to have to leave it to some other, more systematic mind. All I have to suggest here is an analytic of several episodes in the body of Foucault's books, essays, interviews, where laughter comes into play. I will try to show the function laughter plays in these episodes without suggesting that this function is necessarily the same. Laughter is not a smile, where at least one could detect its location, - it's a disembodied faceless voice which doesn't stay within its own belongings and tends to traverse them every time we think it's in our hands.

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