...Uroš Čvoro; Chrisoula Lionis This article examines the use of humor in contemporary art from two nations understood as “peripheral” states within Europe: Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Focusing on the concepts of “locality” and “visibility,” this article makes clear the way artists from...

.... With his feet dangling off the edge of his chair, Whitlock’s white-collar everyman appears both naive and duplicitous, both a victim of the crash and guilty of bringing it on. Whatever way you slice it, he’s in deep shit. This sort of deadly earnest humor resonated elsewhere in the show, as could...

... endeavor. Communications across cultural habits, presuppositions of truth, behavioral signs of community, and generational change are particularly challenging when done through humor at a distance – through newspapers, through second- and thirdhand hearsay and rumor – where signals of affect...

.... With intellectual integrity, well-honed editorial acumen, and self-deprecating humor, John helped realize his initial concept for the journal in its pages. Primarily known as a leading scholar on the work of Paul Virilio, John allowed the adventurous theoretical and extravagantly interdisciplinary peregrinations...

... marked by a discernible absence of clarity, sensibility, or rationality. It may incorporate completely fabricated words or phrases that, in their combination, appear unintelligible or nonsensical. Moreover, it can extend to include deliberate illogical, nonsensical, or humorous dialogues or statements...

... and humor. This is the core of my recent work. 1 Arnold Mesches, e-mail to Cultural Politics , June 2014. 2 The finished drawing Next in Line was shown together with a timely return exhibition of the original The FBI Files at the Life on Mars Gallery in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn...

..., a senior human resources consultant and current vice secretary-general of the Asia-Pacific Human Resources Association (APHRA). In these two works, Cheng composes humorous allegories of the contemporary business world and demonstrates various management strategies by borrowing legendary figures from Water...

.... There was a kind of exhaustion—people were going through the motions of huge expressionism. Pop art was quite ironic, humorous—very different attitude—abstract expressionism had no humor. Minimalism was very reordering, and I was very drawn to minimalism because I was trying to reorder the whole world...

... and The Straight Story ) demonstrate, “the road makes possible particularly strong associations between space and narrative” (113). He finds that Wild at Heart “is disrupted and disjointed, as if each individual scene is a small world in itself, crammed with tension, violence or humor” (113), while The Straight...

..., presumably as a humorous gift, the “Terry Richardson Plastic Camera” set: the plastic camera itself, a black T-shirt, and Richardson-style glasses. 1 The knowing nature of the joke, in relation to the plastic camera, is that Richardson seems to prefer, as evidenced in his photos, off-the-shelf rather than...

..., emotional richness, or resolution” (7). The deaths they depict are exploited for “sick kicks,” a form of “gallows humor” that Foster clearly disapproves of (though she admits at one point that 1000 Ways to Die is so absurd and over-the-top that it might be “a self-reflexive parody”). Ultimately...

... representational painting through its combination of pop stylization, image and text, performative process, and the use of humor and collage. It deconstructs the language of curses and the appropriated media images by exploding female stereotypes, representing a dominant and radically Other kind of female...

... when I heard it coming from the other side. The radio network’s run was brief, only lasting six years before shutting down in 2010, but the stories they dug into were usually only minimally covered by mainstream media, and the humor, belligerence, and depth with which Air America investigated them had...

...; a digression may be as relevant to the question as a more consequential argument. While Theodor W. Adorno's paratactic constructions were in the severely constructive high modernist tradition of Stéphane Mallarmé's constellation, Kittler's digressiveness has something of the rollicking humor of the picaresque...

..., like so many other affective responses in women, is deemed ugly, problematic, and damaging for women's success. The denial of “negative” feelings in women is further reinforced by Gosia's humorous and cheerful self-presentation across her coaching activities: from a video in which she sings...

... Fri,” Homestar approaches another character, Strongbad, and says, “What is up, my dog?” In response, Strongbad groans and says, “I am not your dog.” Speaking back, Homestar humorously misspells dog as doge , “D-O-G-E.” Strongbad turns around and says “Doge?” with a long o . Nearly five years later...

... (including the deliberate killing of 80 police officers) ( Molina 2011 ). 2 Gallows humor prevails when caraqueños —citizens of Caracas—joke that their city is more dangerous than Baghdad or Kabul, a matter that is statistically true. Even though Guerrilla Seca's track invokes only representational...

... in terms of contemplation, as an “idle talker” who “measures the air” (Xenophon 1998 : 11.3). This detail becomes more interesting when read together with Xenophon's most humorous book, the Symposium , where it is not the merciless comedian Philippus but the Syracusan, an artist-businessman making money...

... severe humor (or is it an increasingly humorous severity?) the simultaneous absurdity and seriousness of the soldier's desire to grasp the actuality of the otherwise abstracted target: [Butte du Mesnil je t'imagine en vain Des fils de fer des mitrailleuses des ennemis trop sûrs d'eux Trop enfoncés...

... mix of humor and play, raunch, avarice, and satirical invective that have long characterized discussions on web forums, summarized by Rule 20, which states, “Nothing is to be taken seriously” and the ironic and intentionally misspelled phrase “Teh internet is serious business.” 3 These laws...