(Np) love the Bakhtin!

[John Bailey]

I was taught the pressure valve analogy - the moment of carnival lets
off enough steam that everyone can go back to work and spend the rest
of the year knowing that things aint so bad, because they let us act
up on those special days they've designated...

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Not to mention the Rhineland carnival whose subversion of hierarchies has
> over time produced hierarchies at least as rigid as the original ones.
>
> And thereby hangs a tale.
>
> Thomas
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> Am 23.01.2014 11:27, schrieb Michael Bailey:
>>
>> It should be added, however, that not every carnivalesque act is
>> emancipatory, because sometimes, it can disinhibit reactive desires
>> arising from the system. Bakhtinian theory is sometimes used to defend
>> texts which arguably reproduce dominant values, but do so in an ‘ironic’
>> or ‘humorous’ way. This happens because of the layers of prohibitions:
>> the system often promotes something (such as sexism), then inhibits its
>> unconstrained expression.
>>
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