To laugh with the Other is a physical and corporal practice of liberty, which signifies a resistance to the potential hostilities of life. But it is also the possibility of a different future. And so the irreverent encounter of the text and laughter permits us to manage the crisis of the powers of seriousness and sadness, which predominate in the West and are intensified, for example, by violence, terror and hatred of difference. © 2009 Universidad de Concepción.