Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour
By M. Billig. 2005
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Subfields: Social Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Philosophy
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- An anatomy of a YouTube meme (2012, background): “Espoused in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, and centuries later of Thomas Hobbes, superiority theory interprets laughter as the expression of the pleasant feeling of one-upping the other (Billig, 2005).”
- Old jokes, new media – Online sexism and constructions of gender in Internet memes (2018, background): “Furthermore, mainstream approaches to examining humour have met further criticism for an adherence to a standpoint of ‘‘ideological positivism’’, whereby humour can only be regarded as a positive or beneficial aspect of life, leaving little to no room for consideration of its potential for harm (Bil”
- A Psychoanalytic Discursive Psychology: from consciousness to unconsciousness (2006, background): “However, denied temptation does not disappear but the existence of such desires can be seen, most importantly, in the continuing pleasures of humour (Billig, 2001, 2005).”