Alenka Zupančič: The Maddening Impossibility of Ending
Schedule
Sun, 19 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Anti | Malmö, SN
Anti salong & Aning - förening för filosofi och psykoanalys are very excited to announce that philosopher Alenka Zupančič will be giving a lecture on the 19th of January - written for this occasion - titled "The Maddening Impossibility of Ending".The talk will look at the tragedy of Antigone, and her allegedly “mad” insistence on burying the decaying body of Polyneices, through the lens of “closure”—the effective resolution or ending of something. Contrary to some interpretations, Antigone’s actions are not simply about her personal need for closure; rather, the crisis that demands closure is that of the Theban state itself. The talk will also connect this theme to contemporary crises, which seem to lack any conceivable endpoint, keeping us in a maddening state of unresolved, "undead" persistence. Are there maddening states that only a “mad” gesture can put an end to?
Entry is free of charge & no advance registration needed. Seating capacity is limited.
The event is supported & sponsored by Kulturrådet. (Anti)
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Professor Alenka Zupančič is the author of Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax (2023), What IS Sex? (2017), Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (2012),The Odd One In: On Comedy (2008), and The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (2003). Zupančič is a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher who along with Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek have in large measure been responsible for the popularity in North America (and Europe) of a politically infused Lacanian psychoanalysis.
