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    This document provides an overview of the upcoming public reading and discussion of Anne Carson's translation of Sophokles' Antigone, including: 1) The cast list for the reading, featuring prominent scholars and philosophers in the roles. 2) A brief excerpt from Judith Butler's work discussing Antigone's role and speech acts. 3) An excerpt from Jacques Derrida's Glas discussing the role of the impossible or unclassifiable element in defining a system. 4) A note from translator Anne Carson vowing to preserve Antigone's screams in the translation.

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    This document provides an overview of the upcoming public reading and discussion of Anne Carson's translation of Sophokles' Antigone, including: 1) The cast list for the reading, featuring prominent scholars and philosophers in the roles. 2) A brief excerpt from Judith Butler's work discussing Antigone's role and speech acts. 3) An excerpt from Jacques Derrida's Glas discussing the role of the impossible or unclassifiable element in defining a system. 4) A note from translator Anne Carson vowing to preserve Antigone's screams in the translation.

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    Anne Carson. Aportes del feminismo al mito de Antígona (en inglés)

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    This document provides an overview of the upcoming public reading and discussion of Anne Carson's translation of Sophokles' Antigone, including: 1) The cast list for the reading, featuring prominent scholars and philosophers in the roles. 2) A brief excerpt from Judith Butler's work discussing Antigone's role and speech acts. 3) An excerpt from Jacques Derrida's Glas discussing the role of the impossible or unclassifiable element in defining a system. 4) A note from translator Anne Carson vowing to preserve Antigone's screams in the translation.

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    PHILO-PERFORMANCE:

    ANTIGONICK
    by Sophokles, translated by Anne Carson
    A PUBLIC READING AND DISCUSSION
    CURATED BY BEN HJORTH

    CAST

    Antigone ________________________________________________ Avital Ronell


    Ismene sister of Antigone _____________________________ Elisabeth Angel-Perez
    Kreon king of Thebes ________________________________________ Judith Butler
    Haimon son of Kreon & Eurydike ____________________________ Karen Shimakawa
    Eurydike wife of Kreon, mother of Haimon _______________________ Freddie Rokem
    Teiresias blind prophet of Thebes, led by a boy ____________ Opie Boero Imwinkelried
    Guard ________________________________________________ Timothy Murray
    Messenger _____________________________________________________ Paul Monaghan
    Chorus of old Theban Men ____ Laura Cull, Jon McKenzie, and conference audience
    Nick a mute part, [always onstage, he measures things] ___________________ Ben Hjorth

    John Ireland will facilitate the post-reading discussion.


    Thanks to assistant Jeanne Schaaf and conference co-organizer Anna Street
    Who then is Antigone within such a scene, and what are we to make of her
    words, words that become dramatic events, performative acts? She is not of
    the human but speaks in its language... If she is human, then the human has
    entered into catachresis: we no longer know its proper usage... Antigone is the
    occasion for a new field of the human, achieved through political catachresis,
    the one that happens when the less than human speaks as human, when
    gender is displaced, and kinship founders on its founding laws. She acts, she
    speaks, she becomes one for whom the speech act is a fatal crime, but this
    fatality exceeds her life and enters the discourse of intelligibility as its own
    promising fatality, the social form of its aberrant, unprecedented future.
    Judith Butler, Antigone's Claim, 82
    Effet de focalisation,
    dans un texte,
    autour d’un lieu impossible.
    Fascination par une figure
    irrecevable dans le système.
    Insistance vertigineuse
    sur un inclassable.
    Et si l’inassimilable,
    l’indigeste absolu
    jouait un rôle fondamentale dans le système,
    abyssal plutôt,
    l’abîme jouant un rôle quasi transcendantal
    et laissant se former au-dessus de lui,
    comme une sorte d’effluve,
    un rêve d’apaisement?
    N’est-ce pas toujours un élément exclu du système
    qui assure l’espace de possibilité du système?
    Le transcendantal a toujours été, strictement,
    un transcatégorial,
    ce qui ne pouvait être reçu, formé, terminé
    dans aucune des catégories intérieures au système.
    Le vomit du système.

    Jacques Derrida, Glas, 171, 183

    The effect of focusing,


    in a text,
    around an impossible place.
    Fascination by a figure
    inadmissible in the system.
    Vertiginous insistence
    on an unclassable.
    And what if what cannot be assimilated,
    the absolute indigestible,
    played a fundamental role in the system,
    an abyssal role rather,
    the abyss playing an almost tran-scendental role
    and allowing to be formed above it,
    as a kind of effluvium,
    a dream of appeasement?
    Isn’t there always an element excluded from the system
    that assures the system’s space of possibility?
    The transcendental has always been, strictly,
    a transcategorial,
    what could be received, formed, terminated
    in none of the categories intrinsic to the system.
    The system’s vomit.

    Jacques Derrida, Glas, 151, 162


    Dear Antigone,
    I take it as the task of the translator to forbid that you should ever lose your screams.
    Anne Carson

    Illustrations by Bianca Stone, used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp

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