A cultural theorist, critic, and former video artist (Marx, the Video:
A Politics of Revolting Bodies, Laura Kipnis is professor of cultural
studies at Northwestern University. Her work on the politics of sexual
representation intersects aesthetics, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, pornography,
and politics. She is the author of Against Love: A Polemic (2003); Bound
and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America (1996); and
Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics (1993).
In her talk, "'I'm Offended,'" Kipnis will speak on the psychodynamics of aesthetic
offense by treating the 1994 documentary Crumb, which pits the notoriously
vulgar counter-cultural cartoonist R. Crumb against his feminist critics. She will
also examine what it means to be offended and why exactly offense is experienced
as unpleasant and even threatening.
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