Sunday, October 28, 2012

No Joke Zone


In the inevitable frustration of the desire to anchor meaning in jokes lie the seeds of the joke's own deconstruction. 

Jokes are determined by what they refer to, the product of differential relations with other concepts in language. 

Our attempts to interpret a joke cannot step outside of language, rendering jokes forever deferred (i.e., no joke). 


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