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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of Antigone, Oedipus's daughter, the marginalized and yet inerasable point of departure for another psychoanalysis— perhaps for another theory of the archive. In light of what Judith Butler calls Antigone's “scandalously impure” claim, a claim that appropriates the very language of the power she defies, I...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 57–91.
Published: 01 September 2003
... confluence is being recognized.
When desire loses the purity of the drive and spends itself in the
pursuit of illusory beauty, the drive manifests itself as its own
destruction, just as the pure idea immolates itself in the work. As
Lacan’s reading of Antigone demonstrates, the beautiful literally...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., 2009); Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). 2. In her discussion of Antigone, Judith Butler proposes a similar historical reclamation. She...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 93–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... for You Anew,
West Germany and France, 1987), Barton Byg notices how “the
speed of the recitation makes it impossible for the audience to
always comprehend the text.”41 As an anonymous audience mem-
ber who had just seen Antigone explained to Straub and Huillet, “I
could not follow the text...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 120–147.
Published: 01 May 1993
... will and its limit
Hegel’s favorite example of classical tragedy, Antigone, illustrates this
model well: familial and religious obligations bring Antigone con-
sciously and willfully to defy Creon’s order not to bury P~lynices
While space precludes a detailed discussion...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... as racial.
Judith Butler similarly critiques Jacques Lacan’s reading of
Antigone on the grounds that Lacan emphasizes the brother
function to such an extent that he overlooks the incestuous
particularity of Antigone’s regard for Polyneices. Both examples
revolve around...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 122–152.
Published: 01 December 1980
... films are distributed by Basis-Film Verleih)
1964 Antigone
7min., 35mm, b/w
The classical Antigone epic reduced to pure plot. Despite the condensation
of the turbulent action into seven minutes, it is a “long” film,not a pure action
film.
1965 Haben Sie Abitur? (Have You...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... be regarded as the attempt to bring about the cyborg's second death. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, which takes Antigone as its model, such a death is posited as symbolic, in the sense that it precipitates an exclusion of the subject from the symbolic order that he or she had imperiled. 49 In contrast...
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