What are we allowed to laugh at?

The proposed edition contains a collection of selected essays by Pavlo Shved, originally published in the journal "Kritika" and the online publication "Provid.org". Although they were written at different times and on different occasions, these texts are theoretically united by the author's long-standing interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis of the Ljubljana School and the ideas of Slavoj Žižek in particular, and thematically by what, according to the definition of the famous Ukrainian publicist Mykola Ryabchuk, can be described as our "colonial heritage and postcolonial heredity."