Canned Laughter

Joshua Gunn The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

Abstract This article argues that the example of (canned) laughter continues to trouble the human/machine binary that so many have troubled, from Descartes to Zupančič. Sounding various objects of “recorded” laughter through psychoanalytic tweeters, deconstructive warps, and object-oriented woofers implicates ontology as so much noise for the projection of certainty. Derivatively speaking, I argue for the primacy of a rhetorical ethics.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2014-11-01
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10.5325/philrhet.47.4.0434
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