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Antigona kot homo sacer v sodobnem izrednem stanju
Wilmer, S. E.
This essay reviews some productions in the late twentieth century (Fugard's The Island, Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa, and G owacki's Antigone in New York) that have employed Antigone as a kind of homo ...sacer, and then applies this analogy in a more detailed discussion of Seamus Heaney's 2004 version of The Burial at Thebes at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Heaney's version was inspiredby President G.W. Bush's "war on terror" and the detention and "rendition" of suspected terrorists in prisons beyond legal redress. The language he deployed in the play echoed statements made by President G.W. Bushand evoked his administration's unwarranted invasion of Iraq and torture of prisoners. By comparing recent versions of Antigone that represent her as homo sacer, subjected to a liminal state between life and death, the article demonstrates how the "state of exception" theorised by Agamben has become normalised in the twenty-first century. It draws parallels between the "exceptional" actions of governments, such as the Bush administration and the Argentinian dictatorship, which make up laws as they go along, removing people from their homes and environment and incarcerating or disposing of them outside the polis, outside the reach of their friends and families. Moreover, it shows that Western governments are taking advantage of the "war on terror" to develop new methods of social control (such as increased security measures by the US Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, including more intensive customs inspections, omnipresent CCTV cameras, heightened threat alerts, etc.) that deprive citizens of their civil rights.
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