Fashioning Satire Joke Journal by https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v "A joke explained is a joke misunderstood" en-us 2023-02-10 15:00:29 UTC 2025-12-08 13:28:41 UTC hello@padlet.com jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546124 I love the starter pack memes. Overall, I find more modern satires easier to understand as they are more engaging and funny to me]]> 2023-02-10 15:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546124 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546360 2023-02-10 15:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546360 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546588 2023-02-10 15:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546588 Sensus Communis jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546813 "Humour is shared" Critchley

Recently, the slang word 'swag' as well as the slang word 'slay' have become the new 'epic', which was used in 2010s. This image is funny to me because of how my friends and I ironically use the word 'swag'. ]]> 2023-02-10 15:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476546813 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476549208 2023-02-10 15:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476549208 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476569990 Superiority and Incongruity Theory]]> 2023-02-10 15:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476569990 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476576851 2023-02-10 15:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476576851 Met Gala Memes jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476577758 There are always loads of met gala memes/ comments. I found this edit funny because most of the outfits are completely unrelated to the theme of the year, so the fact that Rhianna has been edited as an egg yolk adds to the irony that the met gala will just be made fun of and not taken seriously, as the celebrities who arrive don't even dress accordingly to the given theme]]> 2023-02-10 15:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476577758 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476579658 I find this funny because I personally love fashion psychology, especially colour theory! It's human to judge people off of appearance and when someone's style changes, does their group or social life alter??]]> 2023-02-10 15:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476579658 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476580181 2023-02-10 15:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476580181 Incongruity Theory jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476581084 I chose this cartoon from the first lecture as my 'after class' activity because I found the shape of her dress funny. It links to modern body types, where it is fashionable to have a large bum and big chest. Body types being fashionable is another topic which I find interesting, because they are scrutinised more than the actual fashions on the body. But it depends on the culture. So perhaps this can be a type of Incongruity Theory in this sense, as well as knowing that women in the 18th century had to wear loads of layers underneath their dresses]]> 2023-02-10 15:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476581084 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476581694 Incongruity theory? Parisienne's are praised on being elegant and natural. This cartoon is funny because they look slightly dishevelled but not in a cute, Parisienne, chic way, in a messy, embarrassing, unkept way]]> 2023-02-10 15:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476581694 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476583522 2023-02-10 15:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476583522 Fashioning Satire Week 1 Reading Quotes/ Notes - SIMON CRITCHLEY ON HUMOUR jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476600861 "A joke explained is a joke misunderstood"

"When it comes to what amuses us, we are all authorities, experts in the field. We know what we find funny. Such a claim to implicit or tacit knowledge"

"There are many explanations of humour, that John-Morreall does well to distil into three theories: the superiority theory, the relief theory and the incongruity theory"

"Humour defeats our expectations by producing a novel actuality, by changing the situation in which we find ourselves"

"Jokes are anti-rites. They mock, parody or deride the ritual practices of a given society"

"So in listening to a joke, I am presupposing a social world that is shared, the forms of which the practice of the joke-telling is going to play with"

"Bathetic shift"
From high to low in fashion jokes = ??? keeping clothes for sentimental reasons? Joking at past versions of your style??

"Humour brings around a change of situation, a surrealisation of the real" 
Change in fashion trends/ trend cycles linked to satire and humour as well as cultural and societal progression?

"At best, simply serve to reinforce social consensus"

"A joke is a play upon form that affords an opportunity for realising that an accepted pattern has no necessity" 

"Arbitrariness of the social rites in which we engage"

"Humour can change the situation in which we find ourselves, and can even have a critical function with respect to society"

"Taxonomy on humour"

"The object of laughter is the subject who laughs"

"Humour both reveals the situation, and indicates how that situation might be changed"
We can think about if there is anyone who is 'right' in fashion

"The consolations of humour come from acknowledging that this is the only world and, imperfect as it is and we are, it is only here that we can make a difference"







]]> 2023-02-10 15:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476600861 Fashioning Satire Week 1 Reading Quotes/ Notes - LOU TAYLOR THE STUDY OF DRESS HISTORY jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476722124 "Cartoons have long been on standby both for the popularise and 'academic' dress historian because of the broad range of political, social and cultural comment they offer through clothing analysis in witty and easily accessible form. However, little in-depth exploration has yet been undertaken to reveal the significant cultural meanings accessible through looking at clothing in cartoons" pg2

"Cartoonists use observation of clothing both to inflict wounds on their target and to amuse their readers. Every nuance of posture, body shape and garment becomes grist to their social comment through their ability to catch or exaggerate the immediate, ephemeral moment. They are therefore useful as a gauge of period social reaction to dress rather than for their 'reliable' depiction of style" (pg2 - 3)

"Most cartoonists develop such favourite stock characters often through the use of clothing imagery and often with great popular success" (pg4)

"Oscar Lancaster both *admired and gently mocked* the heroine of his long running Daily Express cartoons" (pg4 / 8)


]]> 2023-02-10 17:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476722124 Fashioning Satire Week 2 Reading Quotes/ Notes - DIANA DONALD FOLLOWERS OF FASHION jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476764315 "Caricatures of fashion are, indeed, one of the most attractive kinds of imagery to survive the Georgian period, and on the face of it pose few problems of interpretation. They lack the obvious, complicated symbolism of political satires, although, as will be shown, their coded language expresses values that were fundamental to society of the day."

"The amateurs had an intimate knowledge of the styles of dress they pilloried, and were in many cases themselves 'people of fashion.' In other words, this is self-satire by the kinds of people the prints depicted" (pg3 / 15)

"Attitudes of fashion were confused and ambivalent. The comedy of the caricatures concealed an underlying anxiety, or, rather, anxiety gave them an edge and a kind of sanction. They were meant, ostensibly at least, to curb the follies of the frivolous, and to illustrate the sort of behaviour that right-minded people should avoid" (pg4/ 15)

"Whatever moral warnings lurked within the satires, their principal purpose was to entertain" (pg10/ 15) 
Fashion exhibitions and entertainment 

"A sense of connection between particular styles of clothes and the character and 'lifestyle' of those who wore them is less in evidence. The caricaturists presented a cast of stereotypes" (pg10/ 15)

"If the caricaturists could not fathom the social meaning of such cults, their impressions of how clothes were worn offer fascinating insights into the nature of fashionability" (14/ 15)

"Fashion, with all its unresolved mysteries of causation and agency, of motives of buying and motives for rejection and change, already exerted its powers of fascination, well before a great expansion of industrial manufacture, the growing cult named designers and the rise of mass media created the modern fashion industry" (pg14/ 15)]]> 2023-02-10 17:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2476764315 Humour Theory with Simon Critchley jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504169404 "A joke explained is a joke misunderstood"

"Jokes are like small anthropological essays"

"So, in listening to a joke, I am presupposing a social world that is shared..."


]]> 2023-03-05 20:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504169404 Graphic Satire notes jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504199784 - Graphic Satire = the art of caricature presented in a printed image

-Derived from the Italian word 'caricare' = to exaggerate or overload

-The point of a caricature is to distort an image/ make a point/ create comic effect


]]> 2023-03-05 21:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504199784 Lou Taylor jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504202658 Towards a methodology:

-The cartoon's perspective
-The publication or source's perspective
-The audience/ readership
-Cross-class period analysis]]> 2023-03-05 21:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504202658 Punch Magazine jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504203426 This 19th century caricature is funny because it references/ makes a joke on the older man's posture in the background, where women had so many layers to their garments making their bodies look badly postured. Furthermore, the accessory of the umbrella is funny because it looks like a walking stick]]> 2023-03-05 22:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504203426 Punch Magazine Hair jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504205454

]]> 2023-03-05 22:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504205454 Humour Theory (Outlined from Critchley's On Humour and Morreall's Taking Laughter Seriously) jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504212823 The Trinity of Humour Theory

Superiority Theory
Making fun of others (or our past selves)
(Plato and Hobbes)

Relief Theory
Nervous or cathartic laughter. Laughter/ humour noir
(Spencer and Freud)

Incongruity Theory
Laughing at the gaps between expectation and actuality
(Hutchinson and Kant)]]> 2023-03-05 22:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504212823 Diana Donald jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504221312 "Attitudes towards fashion were confused and ambivalent. The comedy of the caricatures concealed an underlying anxiety... They were meant - ostensibly at least - to curb the follies of frivolous and to illustrate the sort of behaviour that right-minded people should avoid; for morality and taste were closely associated in the public mind"]]> 2023-03-05 22:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504221312 Class Notes 03.03.23 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504222643 Sensus Communis

A sense of belonging, a sense of longing, a sense of community

‘...the simple telling of a joke recalls us to what is shared in our everyday practices. It makes 


Lord Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury’s text written in the form of a letter to a friend

> Essay formatting- writing the essay in a form of a letter to a friend? (Risks are creative... Keep away from a rant and keep it academic, analysing and contextualising the essay, if you want to write it in the form of a letter then that’s ok. Make sure Harvard referencing is used)

The idea of the common good.

Can I build this type of intimacy with someone by telling this joke?
If you tell it and they don’t get it

“A joke explained is a joke misunderstood”

A joke is a play on form

Humour Theory

It’s our choice of our material belongings that marks our cultural capital
Bourdieu

The three forms of Cultural Capital
Embodied
Objectified
Institutionalised
Conspicuous consumption

In this cartoon there is a joke of cultural capital because it objectifies things. Choosing objects.Inherited or embodied. Looking at the difference between embodied and acquired

Habitus

A field for the game
Habitus is one of Bordieu’s most influential yet ambiguous concepts. It refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital, to the deeply ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions that we possess due to our life experiences. 


In the right situations, our habitus allows us to successfully navigate social environments

Habitus and Celebrity culture


]]> 2023-03-05 22:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504222643 Art and High Fashion jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504223655 https://elephant.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Nostalgia.jpg

I found this website post very interesting because I love art and I am fond of the brand Celine. Incongruity theory? Because it's niche to certain people... ?

"Hedi Slimane, the creative director of Celine, invited Kramer to collaborate with the brand in 2019. The resulting collection of wallets, bags, jumpers and shoes is currently in stores. The artist is in joyous disbelief: “The fashion industry isn’t known for humour and self deprecation,” he says, gleefully. “Of course I’d heard of Celine before; the great irony of it as a brand is that they advertise everywhere. In New York they advertise on bus stops, which is hilarious because no one taking the bus is buying Celine. But it has this street cred, it has a reputation for being a sexy brand.”

https://elephant.art/isnt-it-ironic-david-kramer-brings-satire-to-high-fashion-celine-17032020/

]]> 2023-03-05 22:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504223655 Cèline jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504228832 The graphic tee is something that I love. I personally own may graphic tees, which I wear in a purely ironic way. I guess this links to the 'Defining Parody: A Sartorial Example' powerpoint slide from week 2. Where Ross Geller wears a 'Frankie Say Relax' t-shirt in the series Friends. Friends definitely has a sense of Relief Theory as well as Incongruity Theory because the humour will only make sense to those who watched the show/ grew up watching it. ]]> 2023-03-05 23:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504228832 Feminist Satire - looking deeper, through clothes/ makeup jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504235390 Personally, I am a massive fan of anything feminist, or even misandrist, so I found these funny. In relation to fashion, the first image we could talk about superiority theory, as perhaps the women could be criticised for what they're wearing, especially since the caption says 'been there, done him' it infers that perhaps she has been with a lot of men. Men view women as objects, and her dress would probably be viewed as 'revealing' as she shows lots of skin.

The 'I'm married, but it's not serious' cartoon shows a woman who appears dominant in her stance and she looks like a professional/ business woman from the way she is dressed. Her hair is neat and she holds a cigarette and leans against the railing. She wears a pencil skirt and cardigan. The man is also in a suit but appears weaker and more submissive, especially from his facial expression]]> 2023-03-05 23:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504235390 Gen Z and Fashion Memes jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504238892 https://www.voguebusiness.com/fashion/meet-fashions-gen-z-meme-lords-using-satire-to-stand-out

Gen Z, especially on Tiktok, there's lots of talk about people being 'fruity'. Does this mean she's straight?]]> 2023-03-05 23:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504238892 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504240227 2023-03-05 23:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504240227 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504240726 This is funny because women's corset's had to be extremely tight and it looks like she's putting in a lot of effort to tighten her corset with the machine]]> 2023-03-05 23:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504240726 jennatappin https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504241337 Superiority theory]]> 2023-03-05 23:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jennatappin/t1n36slppd7c2w9v/wish/2504241337