Connecting
摘要
Using the Women’s Comedy Workshop’s online projects as a case study, this chapter explores the idea of connection in stand-up comedy. It describes how, during the pandemic, Zoom introduced “atmospheric disturbances” that altered the way we worked with participants. It also explores how digital assemblages enabled translocal solidarity. Through collaborations with women in Karachi, online workshops became sites of affective alignment and nascent collective subjectivity, activating fourth-wave feminist possibilities across distance. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of agencement (1987), this chapter argues that connection in comedy is not a fixed state but a process—formed as performers, audiences, objects and ideas are brought into shifting configurations.