Madeline Lane-McKinley

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political. Humour, Groucho Marx asserted, is 'reason gone mad.' For Walter Benjamin, laughter was 'the most revolutionary emotion.' In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call 'work,' what does it mean to take comedy seriously - and to turn it against work? Both...