Walker, Zoe;
(2024)
Comic objectification.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
, 82
(4)
pp. 355-366.
10.1093/jaac/kpae049.
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Abstract
Is finding someone funny a way of treating them as an object? And if so, does that make it immoral? In this paper, I argue that seeing someone as comic involves failing to take into account their subjectivity, which makes it a form of objectification. As for the morality of this ‘comic objectification’, I argue that regarding someone with a comically objectifying attitude is wrongful when such an attitude plays a role in legitimating the oppression of members of their social group.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Comic objectification |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jaac/kpae049 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpae049 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214328 |
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