Michael Marder, author of Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought and Editor of our new series, Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy has published an essay in the New York Times, titled Jokes and Their Relation to Crisis. You can read the essay at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/jokes-and-their-relation-to-crisis/
"Laughing at ourselves, at the various crises in which we find ourselves, means laughing at our weakness, the feeling of being overwhelmed by the future."
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