
Alenka Zupančič on Antigone, Iran, Marx, and a lot of other things
Crisis and Critique
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Antigone's Parallax, Let Them Rod
The play Antigone has much less to do with the themes that constitute its content than we like to believe. There is something about the place almost whatever we could even call it mathematical structure and the way in which this structure manages to articulate its own impasse, its own point of limit That is so powerful. This kind of urge or desire to create a new work of art around the signifier or the figure of Antigone was what intrigued me most about this going on there.
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