Because of the issues we face, we are rather serious at the Workshop, as the present times hardly lend themselves to joking. However, we cannot do without humor, a humor that is a little dark at times, in the sense that André Breton defined it in his time, but absolutely necessary to prevent us from slipping into despair or, even worse, ideology.
And then, in its own way, humor is a weapon that is worth its weight in gold and which, if used with some subtlety, also invites us to understand things. In the exercise of trying to grasp reality, and especially in times as confusing as ours, the exercise of taking a step back is very often necessary; humor is what gives us the opportunity to do so while hopefully saving us from a certain pedantry that weighs down many critical analyses. That said, our humor cannot please everyone, and that is certainly not its purpose, any more than many of our statements and the objectives we set ourselves. This should come as no surprise to anyone.
But the degree of freedom is also measured by the space left for laughter.
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