2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Uncovering the suppressed potential in spontaneous self-induced laughter through Deleuze, affect and posthuman philosophy
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20K00003
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
Weeks Mark 名古屋大学, 教養教育院, 特任准教授 (70514222)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | laughter / solitude / becoming |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In order to establish the history of academic and popular work and thoughts on the subject of solitary laughter in English, I undertook a literature review through academic and popular data bases with terms related to the subject of solitary laughter with a colleague from the field of psychology. This extensive work produced a large amount of data and this was tabulated and became the basis of an article on the subject of the history and significance of solitary laughter. My colleague and I have submitted this for acceptance at an international journal in the field of psychology. We are awaiting the review. Working with psychology researchers took my research onto a slightly different path related to the broad theoretical frameworks within which laughter is conceptualized. With two other researchers from Britain, I submitted an article on positive psychology and autoethnographic method titled “You can end up in a happy place” (Voyce): a role for positive autoethnography”, which was published in the journal Mental Health and Social Inclusion in April 2023 and represents an innovative and unique combination of two formerly disparate fields. I was also invited to participate in the editing of a future book on the subject of autoethnographic writing in the context of positive psychological methods.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Two issues have negatively impacted my progress on the planned research. The first is the COVID virus, which prevented me from joining an international conference to explain my research and receive essential input from colleagues in the field. The second is that my work seeking to establish the history of previous work on the subject of solitary laughter has been extremely time-consuming.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
My plan for the coming year is to write an article on the significance of solitary laughter in relation to philosophy, philosophical reflections on solitude, and recent social psychological work on solitude. I hope to publish this by the end of the present academic year.
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| Causes of Carryover |
These funds will be used to attend at least one international conference to present a paper on the completed or nearly completed research project.
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