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Christopher Stanley, "Antigone Within the
Walls of House", International Journal for the Semiotics
of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique Vol. X
no.30 (1997), 231-259: This essay is part of a project in which I am working
toward the 'grounding' of a cultural politics of difference on an ethics
of alterity (respect). This is a violence involved here operative at a number
of levels. Principally, I am interested in utilising transgression as a
strategy to interrupt the tyranny of repressive representation (law and
society) in a move toward a non-violent configuration of justice in community.
In this essay I argue for the relation between the political and the ethical
to be implicated in this resistant strategy whilst maintaining awareness
of the making of 'work' of justice and community. In utilising the figure
of 'Antigone' mourning beyond the city wall of the polis and the art-installation
'House' , I am able to argue that mourning is a significant move in the
articulation of this strategy in the sense of being a communal act of notifying
the absence of presence and the closure of return. Mourning 'Before the
Law' in the non-coercive act of remembrance for the silenced and in the
recognition of the lack between selves in the sharing of difference (being
in common as being in-difference) involves a compearance Before the Law
(the tyranny of singular judgements premised on universal norms - the injustice
of the Law of the polis) and that this 'sharing of voices' on a space Before
the Law (the heterotopia, the benign space of proximity) signifies a politics
of transgression grounded on an ethics of difference.
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