Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics - Softcover

Kipnis, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816619972 ISBN 13: 9780816619979

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1993

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In "Ecstasy Unlimited", Laura Kipnis provides a collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of her videotapes. These essays, written from her perspective as a practising artist, in tandem with her videoscripts, are singular in bringing a wide range of theoretical sophistication to film and video studies. Kipnis challenges political and aesthetic orthodoxies. Her interpretations take risks at a number of levels, and do not easily fit into established disciplines and categories. Extensively illustrated with stills from her videotapes, "Ecstasy Unlimited" examines everyday life and popular culture produced by consumer capitalism in ironic - and, at times, very funny - ways. Laura Kipnis is a video artist and theorist whose work has been shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her latest video production is "Marx: the Video". She has written extensively on the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, feminism, and popular culture. This book is intended for students and academics of media studies, cultural politics.

About the Author:

Laura Kipnis is the author of "How to Become a Scandal, Against Love, " and "The Female Thing". A professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the NEA. Her writing has appeared in "The New York Times", "Harper s", " Slate", and?"Bookforum", among others. She lives in New York and Chicago.

Paul H. Smith, a retired Army intelligence officer and Operation Desert Storm veteran, spent seven years in the Department of Defense's remote-viewing program, serving as operational remote viewer, theory instructor and trainer, security officer, and unit historian. Smith has a B.A. in Middle Eastern studies from Brigham Young University, and an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence (Middle East emphasis) from the Defense Intelligence College, and is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is president of Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., and vice president of the nonprofit International Remote Viewing Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0816619972
• ISBN 13: 9780816619979
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334