Shock Humor: Zaniness and the Freedom of Permanent Improvisation in Urban Tanzania

摘要

[A] key sense of banishment is captured by another German word, used by both Nietzsche and Marx: Vogelfrei , or “free as a bird.” To be free as a bird was a bittersweet sort of freedom: while one can do what one wants (for one is not under the compulsion of a state), one can be killed without ramification (for one is not under the care of a state).