Žižek's System: Antigone

<p>Alright, welcome back to Žižek &amp; So On. This week continues our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">NEW SERIES </a>on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought &amp; we’re taking a look at Danny Nobus’s session on Žižek’s reading of Sophocles&#39; <em>Antigone</em>.</p><p>Can a revolutionary subject ever be an isolated individual? What happens when an act suspends both public law and private family ties without any guarantees in the Big Other?</p><p>Along the way we get into Alenka Zupančič’s reading of <em>Antigone</em>, Bartleby politics, Žižek’s three Brechtian rewrites of the play, the structural role of the chorus, and alternative models of materialist ethics in Paul Claudel’s <em>The Hostage</em> and Agota Kristof’s <em>The Notebook</em>—where taking a bullet for someone you hate might just be the purest ethical gesture available.</p><p>What is the dialectic of contingency and necessity in Antigone&#39;s double burial? Will we get two crates of Danny’s champagne? How does a groundless act retroactively posit its own presuppositions and transforms into symbolic law?</p><p><a href="https://misconstruity.com/#store" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Make sure to check out Russ Sbriglia’s new album <em>Critique of Pure Desire</em> here!</a></p><p>Up next we move from the tragic act to Žižek’s Quantum History with Adrian Johnston.</p><p>See you in Paris,</p><p>Ž&amp;…</p>