11.05.06: LAURA KIPNIS

Laura Kipnis is a cultural theorist/critic and former video artist. She has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. In addition to three books, her essays and reviews have appeared in Slate, The Nation, Critical Inquiry, Social Text, Wide Angle, the Village Voice, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and numerous edited collections.

Her work frequently focuses on the intersections of American politics, psyche, and the body - with detours through love, Marx, adultery, scandal, Freud, pornography, and the legacy of the avant garde. Her latest book is The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability


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