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Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate [[figure ]] of [[ethical ]] [[resistance ]] to the [[state ]] [[power ]] which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple [[human ]] dignity (more important than all [[political ]] struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the [[representative ]] of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular [[intervention ]] can confront?

Žižek’s rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a [[practical ]] way: not by theorizing [[about ]] [[them]], but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial [[moment]], the [[action ]] takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht’s learning plays.

A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in [[reading ]] and watching Antigone in an entirely new way.