Ecstasy Unlimited

On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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A unique collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of Kipnis' videotapes."Laura Kipnis has made the leap from artist to theorist (or was it the other way around?) making videos which are informed by theory and writing essays that have and edge of the practice of everyday art. The book contains the scripts for three of Kipnis' videotapes and several essays which range form a critique of theories of the avant garde to colonialism. The best of the group has to be '(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler,' which is an amazing argument for the radical potential of Hustler magazine based on an analysis of the notion of disgust. It's a stretch, but a well-argued and intriguing stretch. Kipnis' position on avant-garde film and video is also an articulate call for the merits of popular culture as the basis from which to build a contestatory cinema/video practice." -Film Maker

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1993-03-20
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor334
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9780816619979

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Laura Kipnis is a video artist and theorist whose tapes have been shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her latest tape is Marx: The Video. She teaches in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, and has written extensively on the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, feminism, and popular culture.Paul Smith is associate professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of Pound Revised, Discerning the Subject, and Clint Eastwood: A Cultural Production, and a coeditor, with Alice Jardine, of Men in Feminism.

Introduction: crossing the theory/practice Rubicon; Repossessing popular culture; Ecstasy unlimited: the interpenetrations of sex and capital (1985); Looks good on paper: Marxism and feminism in a postmodern world; A man's woman (1987); "The phantom twitchings of an amputated limb": colonialism as a female disease; Aesthetics and foreign policy; (Male) desire and (female) disgust: reading Hustler; Marx: the video - a politics of revolting bodies (1990).