absurdity
The absurd workplace: How absurdity is hypernormalized in contemporary society and organizations
Introduction
A psychiatrist who has a 30-minute appointment with a patient, needs another 20-25 minutes to process all paperwork attached to the meeting (Spaans, 2017). There is now so much bureaucracy involved in health care provision, that the time that health care providers spend on their actual jobs is substantially reduced, seriously impeding the quality of care because of the very procedures meant to ensure quality of care.
Escaping Wonderland
Fact fiction
In Lewis Caroll’s celebrated 1871 novel, Through the looking-glass (TLG), which is the sequel to his beloved Alice’s adventures in Wonderland (AIW) from 1865, the protagonist Alice encounters the so-called
‘Come on, get happy!’: Exploring absurdity and sites of alternate ordering in Twin Peaks
Introduction*
I think humor is like electricity. You work with it but you don’t understand how it works. It’s an enigma. (Lynch in Murray, 1992/2009: 144)