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Acknowledgements; Contents; 1: Introduction: Aporia, the Sphinx, and the Hope that Life Will Make Sense; Myth and Tragedy in the Contemporary Context; Lacan, Baudrillard, and Stiegler: Real Uncertainties; Lacan and Baudrillard; Lacan and Stiegler; The Chapters of This Book; After Oedipus: The Sphinx and the Hope that Life Will Make Sense; Bibliography; 2: Ion's Aporia: Just Another Oedipus?; From the Oedipus Complex to the Limit of Aporia; The Aporetic Subject at Delphi; Ion's Morning Song; A Crack in the Real; Isn't That What You Wanted?; Does Anyone Tell the Truth in This Place?
Not Another OedipusBibliography; 3: Towards a New Anthropogony? Tron Revisited; A Footnote in the Order of the Simulacra?; Simulation; Language and Signification; The Social and the Individual, the Other and Seduction; Simulacral Oedipus; From Law to Rule; Sam Enters the Game; The Melancholic Father; Quora's Body; End of Line ; Beyond the End of Line: A Positively Perfect Crime; Bibliography; 4: Forget Antigone?; Sublime Antigone; What Does It Mean 'to Live'?; The Criminal Being of the Brother or a Double (Sister)?; What Does the Audience Really Want?
Exacerbation of Thought, One More TimeBibliography; 5: The Abyss of the Other's Desire or Greek Myth for (Neoliberal) Children; Theorising Disenchantment and Misery; What Is Individuation?; The Maladies of Capitalism: Symbolic Misery, Erosion of Belief, Proletarianisation, Hypersynchronisation; Stupidity, Herdishness and Lack of Attention; Libidinal Economy and Consistence; The Myth of the (Revenant) Father and Oedipus's Epimethean Limp; Percy Jackson: Greek Myth for (Neoliberal) Children; Otium for Heroes; On the Road: Re-configuring the Libidinal Economy; Technics and Objects
Towards a New Libidinal and Political ArrangementBibliography; 6: The Search for Origin in Ridley Scott's Prometheus; Prometheus, Time and Death; The Tragic and the Search for Origin (How Will I Know?); First Reading; An Originary Scene Is Never Witnessed; Two Gods?; This Is Not It!; Second Reading: In Hindsight, Aprés Coup; The Forgotten Game; Bibliography; 7: Conclusion: Aporia, Commemoration, Paramythia; After Oedipus: 'Homage' to a Tragic Subject?; New Myths and Tragic Values?; Hermeneia and Paramythia; Bibliography; Bibliography; Index
Not Another OedipusBibliography; 3: Towards a New Anthropogony? Tron Revisited; A Footnote in the Order of the Simulacra?; Simulation; Language and Signification; The Social and the Individual, the Other and Seduction; Simulacral Oedipus; From Law to Rule; Sam Enters the Game; The Melancholic Father; Quora's Body; End of Line ; Beyond the End of Line: A Positively Perfect Crime; Bibliography; 4: Forget Antigone?; Sublime Antigone; What Does It Mean 'to Live'?; The Criminal Being of the Brother or a Double (Sister)?; What Does the Audience Really Want?
Exacerbation of Thought, One More TimeBibliography; 5: The Abyss of the Other's Desire or Greek Myth for (Neoliberal) Children; Theorising Disenchantment and Misery; What Is Individuation?; The Maladies of Capitalism: Symbolic Misery, Erosion of Belief, Proletarianisation, Hypersynchronisation; Stupidity, Herdishness and Lack of Attention; Libidinal Economy and Consistence; The Myth of the (Revenant) Father and Oedipus's Epimethean Limp; Percy Jackson: Greek Myth for (Neoliberal) Children; Otium for Heroes; On the Road: Re-configuring the Libidinal Economy; Technics and Objects
Towards a New Libidinal and Political ArrangementBibliography; 6: The Search for Origin in Ridley Scott's Prometheus; Prometheus, Time and Death; The Tragic and the Search for Origin (How Will I Know?); First Reading; An Originary Scene Is Never Witnessed; Two Gods?; This Is Not It!; Second Reading: In Hindsight, Aprés Coup; The Forgotten Game; Bibliography; 7: Conclusion: Aporia, Commemoration, Paramythia; After Oedipus: 'Homage' to a Tragic Subject?; New Myths and Tragic Values?; Hermeneia and Paramythia; Bibliography; Bibliography; Index