![]() ![]() In the twenty-first century, humour no longer operates as a simple addendum or ornament to the American political process rather it has become a central aspect of the operation of American politics proper. Therefore satire's intent to reform the body politic through ridicule, its claim to pursue truth as an act of parrhesia (speaking truth to power), even its real world impact, does not place it into the realm of the serious speech acts of policy statements and civic actions. 4.Satire may function as comic political speech, but it is not political speech. ![]() real-world) impact well beyond other forms of comic art, despite the postmodern condition. 3.The paradox of satire behaving like light at quantum levels, with a dual nature of being both serious and non-serious speech, enables a potential for social (i.e. The postmodern condition exacerbates the dilemma of ethical ridicule that has concerned Western thought for centuries: its apparent lack of centering norms or standard values as a metric for making comic judgments inevitably complicates the contemporary production and reception of satire. Satire is marked by a methodological paradox, one committed ethically to promote the process of social change, yet also committed comically to use the symbolic violence of ridicule and artful insult. ![]() ![]() This introduction for a special issue of “Studies in American Humor” considers the usefulness of the postmodern condition as a rubric for demarcating a poetics of contemporary American comic art forms that uses ridicule to enable critique and promote the possibility of social change. ![]()
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