Carnival
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.173
Ideology and Equality > Class Struggle at the Carnival
Theoretical move: Comedy has no inherent political valence; the distinction between egalitarian and ideological comedy lies not in who produces or targets it, but in whether it reveals internal division/splitting in both subject and object (egalitarian) or sustains a sense of wholeness that reinforces social authority (ideological).
Bakhtin understands that carnival is only a temporary suspension of societal hierarchy and that this hierarchy returns after the carnival, but nonetheless the comedy that takes place during the carnival has an inherent radicality to it.