工作从不奏效:马来喜剧的劳动政治

IF 0.3 Q3 AREA STUDIES Kajian Malaysia Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI:10.21315/km2023.41.1.9
A. Rahmat
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马来喜剧长期以来对工作的关注是什么?本文认为,它标志着一种质疑资本主义普遍性的方式,在这种普遍性中,劳动不被视为人性,而是一种从最近和现代的象征性秩序中出现的特定需求。这一举动的激进性将通过阿连卡·祖潘·伊茨对喜剧如何通过揭示意义的偶然性而发挥作用的辩证解释来证明。马来喜剧通过模仿、模仿和伪装等常规手法达到类似的效果,其中“工作”的概念被挑出来仔细审查和疏远。但除此之外,将马来喜剧与zupan isti进行对话,可以在两个方面对喜剧的辩证运作进行历史唯物主义的延伸。首先,意义是偶然的,不是由于概念的“性质”,而是由于概念受到历史资本主义影响的程度。其次,模拟强调了这一过程的物质性,因为喜剧的身体既不是“只是另一个物体”,也不是像著名的喜剧理论所呈现的那样,被理想化为一种解放体验。更确切地说,它是一个历史理解发生的地方。
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Work Never Works: On Malay Comedy’s Politics of Labour
What accounts for Malay comedy’s longstanding preoccupation with work? This article argues that it marks a way of questioning capitalism’s universality wherein labour is not regarded as human nature but a specific demand emerging out of a recent and modern symbolic order. The radicality of this move will be demonstrated via Alenka Zupančič’s dialectical account of how comedy functions through revealing the contingency of meaning. Malay comedies operate to similar effects through a regular use simulation – such as mimicry, impersonation and disguises – where the notion of “work” is singled out to be scrutinised and estranged. But beyond this, bringing Malay comedy into conversation with Zupančič allows for a historical materialist extension of comedy’s dialectical operation in two regards. First, meaning is contingent not due to the “nature” of concepts but the extent to which concepts are affected by historical capitalism. Second, the simulations stress the corporeality of this process as the comic body is reducible neither as “just another object,” nor idealised as an emancipatory experience as how it has been rendered by notable theories of comedy. It is, rather, a site where historical understanding takes place.
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