Comments on: … is the funniest bit of philosophy you know of? http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/ A working notebook Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Nate http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/#comment-943 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:54:23 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/#comment-943 I like those moments but I think they're rarely laugh out loud funny. The whole "night when all cows are black" or grey or whatever thing, that's _kinda_ funny, but just kinda. It'd be better if there was a crew of some sort at the same time, to make the SNAP! explicit, "aww damn!" "BURNED!" etc. You know what, you should start recording passages like that and add in tracks with that stuff in the background and put them out as mp3s. I like those moments but I think they’re rarely laugh out loud funny. The whole “night when all cows are black” or grey or whatever thing, that’s _kinda_ funny, but just kinda. It’d be better if there was a crew of some sort at the same time, to make the SNAP! explicit, “aww damn!” “BURNED!” etc. You know what, you should start recording passages like that and add in tracks with that stuff in the background and put them out as mp3s.

]]> by: geo http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/#comment-942 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:28:30 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/#comment-942 nate, you're funny as fuck. for me, cause i'm a mean person generally, is when a philosopher says something about another philosopher and you're all like -SNAP!- he got you good. like what hegel said about spinoza, i think. nate, you’re funny as fuck.

for me, cause i’m a mean person generally, is when a philosopher says something about another philosopher and you’re all like -SNAP!- he got you good. like what hegel said about spinoza, i think.

]]> by: Craig http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/#comment-940 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:55:52 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/is-the-funniest-bit-of-philosophy-you-know-of/#comment-940 Kant has a number of jokes - including trader's whose wigs turn white and an indian who doesn't understand how liquids get into bottles. He wasn't very funny. Hardt & Negri's crack about people like Bono and those Christian groups who buy slaves - "mendicant orders of Empire" - is always good. Most humour appears in nasty, sarcastic restatements: when someone, like Laclau and Mouffe, write a book and then someone with more ego than brains, like Geras, reads and doesn't understand and writes a long, critical essay on it, and then the original authors "reply" with what amounts to a lesson in Marxology 101 and Epistemology 101, then that can be quite funny. Kant has a number of jokes - including trader’s whose wigs turn white and an indian who doesn’t understand how liquids get into bottles. He wasn’t very funny. Hardt & Negri’s crack about people like Bono and those Christian groups who buy slaves - “mendicant orders of Empire” - is always good.

Most humour appears in nasty, sarcastic restatements: when someone, like Laclau and Mouffe, write a book and then someone with more ego than brains, like Geras, reads and doesn’t understand and writes a long, critical essay on it, and then the original authors “reply” with what amounts to a lesson in Marxology 101 and Epistemology 101, then that can be quite funny.

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