Laughter Notes on a Passion

Most theories of laughter do not begin with laughter but with the laughable object, Variously conceived of as the comic, the humorous, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. In pursuing that materiality, she uncovers an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. --