| Title | Mourning Mourning |
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| Subtitle | Sophocles, Derrida, and Delay |
| Contributor | Sarah Nooter (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0446.1.10 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-before-and-the-after-critical-asynchrony-now/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Sarah Nooter |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2025-01-29 |
| Long abstract | In this chapter, I examine Jacques Derrida’s take on Sophocles’ portrait of Oedipus’s death in Oedipus at Colonus, and also attempt to answer some of the anxieties presented by Derrida in Of Hospitality and Archive Fever about technology and media, particularly as it all relates to long-lasting present tense of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, I address questions about how—through what rituals and tricks of time—we mediate delay, disruption, and loss. I close with an examination these themes in a performance of Bill T. Jones called “The Process of Becoming Infinite” and a look at mourning in Sophocles’ Ajax. |
| Page range | pp. 195–214 |
| Print length | 20 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Sarah Nooter is the Edward Olson Professor of Classics and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (2012), The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (2017), and Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality (2023). She is co-editor with Shane Butler of Sound and the Ancient Senses (2018) and co-editor with Mario Telò of Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical (2023). She is the editor and translator of How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality (2024).