In his recent book, Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler, Mario Telò explores the critical engagements that Butler makes with some of the canonical texts of Greek Tragedy, namely Antigone, The Bacchae and The Eumenides on matters of war, violence, kinship, desire, and action. In developing a ‘Butlerian reading’, Telò demonstrates his commitment to a radical strategy of reading Butler’s ‘readings’. This strategy aims to elaborate their analysis by taking inspiration from their method of interpretation. The project is defined by Telò in this way, ‘To be Butlerian in being non-Butlerian is to evade the re-inscription of possession and sovereignty while aligning oneself with, even being cathected to, the theorist who has most powerfully contested the tyranny of identity, autonomy and self-sufficiency’.
This online discussion between Judith Butler and Mario Telò will explore the space that is opened up as a result of the ‘agitated affect’ of the reading activity, a dynamic space often destabilised through psychoanalytic interventions. Through the combined lens of Butler/Telò, we realise just how vital Greek tragic texts are to contemporary questions of subjectivity, kinship, brutality, and injustice. This event will be chaired by The Freud Museum’s Research Manager, Tom DeRose.
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