Alenka Zupančič's Antigone
example · Slovenian/Yugoslav ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek describes his intellectual friendship with Alenka Zupančič, noting that her book 'Antigone’s Parallax' converted him by arguing that Antigone’s act is not about liberal inclusion (trans/gay rights) but about a specific, exclusive loyalty to the brother, illustrating the paradox of inclusion/exclusion.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“Alenka’s Antigone’s Parallax... She takes into account my three versions and adds a fourth version.”
“Creon is a Jewish administrator, pragmatic. Antigone is a true figure of fascism who stands for Blut und Boden against state alienation.”
“Julian Assange, I think, is something like our Antigone from Sophocles' play. He is for a long time kept in the position of a living dead.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
concrete universality
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inclusion through exclusion
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eating the last cannibal
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Qasem Soleimani1Alex Williams1Nick Srnicek1Jean Anouilh1Buddhists1David McKerracher1H. P. Lovecraft1Eckhart Tolle1
alongside works
Every retelling 4
~19:12 Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!pub. 2024-03-18 · 1:57:15
Žižek describes his intellectual friendship with Alenka Zupančič, noting that her book 'Antigone’s Parallax' converted him by arguing that Antigone’s act is not about liberal inclusion (trans/gay rights) but about a specific, exclusive loyalty to the brother, illustrating the paradox of inclusion/exclusion., illustrating concrete universality,logic of exclusion
French proto-fascists Robert Brasillach and Charles Maurras (Action Française) loved Anouilh's Antigone because for them Creon was a Jewish administrator and Antigone a figure of Blut und Boden fascism, showing that Antigone's appeal is structurally ambiguous., illustrating Antigone's ideological ambiguity,fascist appropriation of tragedy
Assange, held indefinitely in a state of living death with no conviction, mirrors Sophocles' Antigone, punished for making public the obscene dark side of US power, acting as a 'spy for the people'., illustrating eating the last cannibal,obscene master / clown-master,sacred violence
Žižek told his friend Udi Aloni that staging Antigone in Jenin with a resistance-hero brother was 'making it easy'; the proper version would have the Palestinian family burying a son who was a traitor/informer, they agreed and noted Palestinian society has grappled with exactly this., illustrating ethical difficulty of Antigone,traitor vs. hero