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Comedy as Speculative Thought
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.191
Speculation and Levity
Theoretical move: Comedy is not a moral holiday or cathartic release but a speculative act that forces subjects to confront the constitutive contradiction of subjectivity—the indissoluble link between lack and excess, trauma and enjoyment, finitude and transcendence—making it philosophically equivalent to, and more accessible than, formal speculation.
Though philosophy speculates more directly, comedy offers a more accessible version of speculative thought.