The paper focuses on affective resistance with an emphasis on the context in which resistant action emerges, and on the liberating power of laughter. It adopts the approach of ‘affective ethnographic history’ to examine the activities of the Polish oppositional artistic collective, the Orange Alternative (OA), between 1986 and 1989. The OA organized interventions in the streets of Polish cities which engaged the general public as participants. The focus of the interventions was on the creation of affective atmospheres leading to affective transitions in the participants from fear to the lack of fear. The paper contributes to scholarly debates on resistance in three ways: 1) it proposes that resistance and its efficacy should be assessed not in terms of the form of resistance, but through consideration of resistant action in relation to the context of its emergence; 2) it demonstrates how affective resistance operates through affective atmospheres that result in affective transitions to the state of lack of fear; 3) it reconsiders the significance of laughter as an affective force that has liberating consequences both within a particular resistance assemblage and beyond it.

本文着重于情感抵抗，重点是抵抗行动出现的背景以及笑声的释放能力。它采用“情感人种史”的方法来考察1986年至1989年波兰反对派艺术团体Orange Orange（OA）的活动。OA在波兰城市的街道上组织了干预活动，吸引了广大公众作为参与者。干预的重点是营造情感氛围，从而导致参与者从恐惧到缺乏恐惧的情感过渡。本文通过以下三种方式为有关抗药性的学术辩论做出了贡献：1）建议抗药性及其功效不应以抗药性的形式进行评估，但是要考虑到与抵抗行动的出现有关的抵抗行动；2）证明了情感抵抗如何通过情感气氛运作，从而导致情感转变为缺乏恐惧的状态；3）它重新考虑了笑作为一种情感力量的重要性，这种情感力量在特定的反抗组织内外都具有解放性的后果。