Laura Kipnis
Professor emerita of Radio-TV-Film, Northwestern University
I’m Professor emerita at Northwestern University, where I taught film. I would call myself a cultural critic. I mostly write about cultural politics, sexual politics, aesthetics. I’m very interested in norms and their violation, transgression, people who get in trouble. I’m also interested in taboos and people who smash norms. So I like troublemakers, I guess.
EXPs by Laura Kipnis
Transgression – or the violation of norms – has been essential to art since the 19th century.
University students are changing how they regard sexual culture. Many feel conflicted about sexual experiences, which they see as potentially traumatising.
Throughout history, love became incorporated into institutions, which led to societal norms surrounding monogamous marriage and domestic coupledom.