
Alenka Zupančič on Antigone, Iran, Marx, and a lot of other things
Crisis and Critique
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The Game-Changing Effect of Repression
The repression preserves this extraordinary character, whereas disavowable keeps it as part of reality, but changes its character. We say it is the game-changer, but we still continue to behave as if it were not according to this classical disavowable formula. So, and I think that this is one of the kind of general things that I really liked about WhatsApp,. The way they proceed in the movie, how they confront it with precisely death, not a moral outrage, but this kind of ultimately grotesque caricature of reality.
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