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DESCRIPTION:Satire and the Dream of Cultural Politics\n\nNicholas Holm\n	Mas
 sey University\, New Zealand\n\nIn the first decades of the twenty-first c
 entury\, satire has been increasingly embraced as a legitimate means by wh
 ich to cover\, analyse and intervene in political issues. This can be seen
  not only in academic discussions—where humour has been hailed as form of 
 radical truth that speaks truth to power—but also in wider\, vernacular co
 ntexts\, where comedy sometimes appears as the last\, best hope of popular
  political critique and democratic engagement. Supplanting the suspiciousl
 y sombre forms of traditional critical approaches\, the rise of comic crit
 icism has suggested the possibility of a properly critical combination of 
 (popular) culture and politics: simultaneously entertaining\, subversive a
 nd accessible.\n\nAnd\, yet\, if satire is such a powerful and inherently 
 critical force\, we might wonder how and why—in such satirical times—our p
 olitical world could spin off in such unexpected and undesirable direction
 s. In this presentation\, I explore how the appeal and limitations of sati
 re arise from that concept’s inherent promise to bridge the worlds of popu
 lar culture and politics and consider how the turn to satire is symptomati
 c of the deep resonance and wide appeal of both cultural politics and poli
 tical culture. However\, contrary to enthusiastic claims for satire’s crit
 ical potential\, I argue that the formal complexity of satire as a comic f
 orm often disrupts\, and even potentially inhibits\, its ability to act as
  a meaningful political intervention. In order to make sense of the wider 
 political consequences of the turn to satire\, I thus posit that satire’s 
 promise to make culture directly political may ultimately undermine broade
 r\, and more effectual\, notions of the politics of culture.\n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series | Nicholas Holm 'Satire and the Dream of Cultural Po
 litics'
URL:/ahcs/channels/event/speaker-series-nicholas-holm-
 satire-and-dream-cultural-politics-300446
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