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Polish highlander jokes and their targets
2017
The aim of the paper is to identify the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to isolate the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning canny versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive features of the joke targets that make it possible to perceive these jokes as a culturally specific phenomenon. The head shepherd (called baca) is the key character of the cycle. He is a very down-to-earth person, who is proud of his practical wisdom and has a ver…
Pensar problemáticamente: una tentativa de interpretación global de la obra de Deleuze
2016
espanolEn el presente articulo nos proponemos realizar una lectura transversal de Deleuze donde se sostiene que la vocacion belica de la filosofia –la de arremeter contra la logica del reconocimiento y sus dos correlatos, la estupidez y el gregarismo– es inseparable de una redefinicion del filosofar como actividad de pensar problematicamente, cuya logica –la del sentido producido y de la sensacion constituyente– implica una nueva relacion al tiempo donde el futuro inanticipable –que hace trizas el horizonte de presencia y coherencia relativa en el cual opera la logica del reconocimiento– tiene el primado. EnglishIn this article we propose a transversal reading of Deleuze in which it is sust…
Narration et Conspiration. Formes de la bêtise dans le Pendule de Foucault
2018
Dans cet article, nous proposons une lecture du Pendule de Foucault qui vise à extraire du texte littéraire une théorie de la stupidité et de la raison. Pour le texte de ce roman, il y a plusieurs formes de la bêtise, mais la formulation de cette classification est faite par un personnage ivre et dans un moment très particulier du roman. Ainsi la forme de la narration, celle de la conspiration et la théorie de l’irrationalisme se construisent parallèlement, pendant l’histoire. The aim of this study is to return to the question of the relationship between the plot of the Pendule de Foucault and the hermetic semiosis or the question of irrationalismby nuancing this report, not in the sense of…