LET THEM ROT by Alenka Zupančič
£11.99
LET THEM ROT by Alenka Zupančič
£11.99
Title Let Them Rot
Author(s)/Editor(s) Alenka Zupančič
Publisher Divided Publishing
Pages 112
Dimensions 216 x 139 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2023

What is the relation between family misfortune and desire? Why must we bury the dead? What is to come for those unburied? How to distinguish the endless stream of graphic violence from violence that goes straight to the bone? How does language make up not only the law, but also unwritten laws?

In Let Them Rot Alenka Zupančič takes up the ancient figure of Antigone and finds a blueprint for the politics of desire. Not desire as consumption, enjoying what is offered, but desire’s oblivion to what came before. Such politics says: “No, this world must end and I will be the embodiment of that end.” This is not self-satisfied destruction for destruction’s sake; it is existence with consequences beyond the predictable. Zupančič asks: “Why desire?” And this question of desire, which may be the only question, takes the form of a no that is also an “I.”