Hegel's laughing

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, miriam fernandez-santiago wrote:

>             I have been doing some research on Postmodern
>             humor n Pynchoh´s work
>             and I do not think his laughter is nihilistic at
>             all, like Hegel´s.  
>             I´d rather say it is a kind of third dimension
>             which escapes the
>             dialectics of thesis/antithesis.  It is the
>             option which is not in
>             the chart, the non-visible window: just another
>             thing.  Political,
>             social or other purposes that laughter might
>             have, are added
>             purposes, but not essential to laughter.


In other words the laughter process is not a spilling over of
the hierarchical binary opposition into nothingness, but rather into
somethingness. Like Us/Them spills over into Slothrop or rocket/penis
spills over into Jamf.

Just a thought. These would be what McHoul and Wills call material
typonyms.

In postmodernism is dialectics possible?

			P.