Laura Kipnis
Biographic Data
| ID | 323739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Kipnis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Kipnis |
| SIGNATURE | KIPNIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University Evanston IL USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oh, Mr Hitchens
In 2010, when a book I'd written called How to Become a Scandal was going to press, my editor contacted Christopher to ask for a blurb. He sent back three choices, the first of which read, ‘Laura Kipnis promised me a blowjob if I endorsed her latest triumph, which I hereby warmly and devotedly do.’ I'm sure it says nothing good about me that I found this funny, especially since using it would have so perfectly – and devilishly – enacted the premi…
The Face That Launched a Thousand Jokes
Eros and Psyche
Laura Kipnis on JoAnn Wypijewski, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo. What do recent sexual alarms reveal, or occlude, about America’s structural violence and unravelling social fabric
An Incomplete Exchange
The female thing
Breathing new life into age-old questions, each of the four chapters of "The Female Thing" takes a hot-button issue of feminism and femininity and turns the usual story around."--BOOK JACKET
Adultery
Feminism’s Altar Ego
Marx
Postmodern Culture - Volume 1, Number 1, September 1990
Feminism
In these, the twilight years of (so it seems in the industrialized West), a phrase still echoes through the shabby halls of left theory, halls now bustling with better-dressed post-Marxists scratching out a story of crisis, decline, and aftermath. Here is the phrase: Marxism lacks a theory of the subject. Psychoanalysis, the preeminent theory of the subject, was offered as a provisional remedy: although initially and officially rejected by a stal…
Sexual healing
Review| February 01 1987 Sexual healing Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate by Kirby Dick distributed by Kino International Corporation, 250 W. 57th St., suite 314, New York, NY 10019 Laura Kipnis Laura Kipnis Laura Kipnis is a videomaker, critic, and a fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1987) 14 (7): 18–19. https://doi.o…
Aesthetics and Foreign Policy
tropical socialism. My remarks here on the subject of hermeneutics and aesthetics have their inception in my dismay at comments made to me upon my return from this voyage by various friends, family, colleagues and certain left intellectuals of my acquaintance suggesting that the term in Cuba was oxymoronic: Cuban culture, being state-sponsored, has the status of propaganda rather than culture, I was told; I was also frequently and somewhat tautol…
Adultery
Feminism
In these, the twilight years of (so it seems in the industrialized West), a phrase still echoes through the shabby halls of left theory, halls now bustling with better-dressed post-Marxists scratching out a story of crisis, decline, and aftermath. Here is the phrase: Marxism lacks a theory of the subject. Psychoanalysis, the preeminent theory of the subject, was offered as a provisional remedy: although initially and officially rejected by a stal…
Aesthetics and Foreign Policy
tropical socialism. My remarks here on the subject of hermeneutics and aesthetics have their inception in my dismay at comments made to me upon my return from this voyage by various friends, family, colleagues and certain left intellectuals of my acquaintance suggesting that the term in Cuba was oxymoronic: Cuban culture, being state-sponsored, has the status of propaganda rather than culture, I was told; I was also frequently and somewhat tautol…
Sexual healing
Review| February 01 1987 Sexual healing Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate by Kirby Dick distributed by Kino International Corporation, 250 W. 57th St., suite 314, New York, NY 10019 Laura Kipnis Laura Kipnis Laura Kipnis is a videomaker, critic, and a fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1987) 14 (7): 18–19. https://doi.o…
Feminism
In these, the twilight years of (so it seems in the industrialized West), a phrase still echoes through the shabby halls of left theory, halls now bustling with better-dressed post-Marxists scratching out a story of crisis, decline, and aftermath. Here is the phrase: Marxism lacks a theory of the subject. Psychoanalysis, the preeminent theory of the subject, was offered as a provisional remedy: although initially and officially rejected by a stal…
Feminism’s Altar Ego
Marx
Postmodern Culture - Volume 1, Number 1, September 1990
Adultery
The female thing
Breathing new life into age-old questions, each of the four chapters of "The Female Thing" takes a hot-button issue of feminism and femininity and turns the usual story around."--BOOK JACKET
An Incomplete Exchange
The Face That Launched a Thousand Jokes
Eros and Psyche
Laura Kipnis on JoAnn Wypijewski, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo. What do recent sexual alarms reveal, or occlude, about America’s structural violence and unravelling social fabric
Oh, Mr Hitchens
In 2010, when a book I'd written called How to Become a Scandal was going to press, my editor contacted Christopher to ask for a blurb. He sent back three choices, the first of which read, ‘Laura Kipnis promised me a blowjob if I endorsed her latest triumph, which I hereby warmly and devotedly do.’ I'm sure it says nothing good about me that I found this funny, especially since using it would have so perfectly – and devilishly – enacted the premi…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)