Heidegger’s unfunny and the academic text: organization analysis on the blink

There are different versions of humour; one could exercise, for example, Marxist, Freudian, deconstructive or Levinasian modes of analysis as a way of studying humour (see Critchley 2002; Lingis 2004), or one could deploy Marxist, Freudian, or deconstructive humour. We might arrive at the insight that humour is an opiate of the masses; or we could use humour to caricature the activities of the capitalist as the usurious conniving of a Mr ‘Moneybags’, as Marx famously does in Capital.