LAURA KIPNIS

Actualmente las relaciones de pareja se desgarran entre el leitmotiv doméstico de "hasta que la muerte nos separe" y el anhelo escapista de estar siempre en otra parte (con alguien más); el deseo libertario y las normas de la relacion constructiva; un sentido desequilibrado de la entrega y el sedante de la estabilidad emocional. Laura Kipnis reivindica el adulterio como tactica para subvertir el orden amoroso regido por las exigencia del capital. Cuando el amor es el turno que sigue a las horas de oficina, toca rescatar al vago de la seduccion, al embaucador de corazones y a todos aquellos ociosos cuyos estilos de vida sean capaces de restituirle su sentido de aventura.

"El amor es, como todo el mundo sabe y acepta, una fuerza misteriosa e inexorable, con un poder inmenso sobre nuestros pensamientos y decisiones en la vida. El amor es dueño y señor. Y, además, exigente: nos reclama lealtad." Si le preguntaran: "¿Es usted adultero o le gustaria serlo?". ¿Cual seria su respuesta? ¿Es de aquellas personas que estan en contra del amor? ¿Su relacion puede sobrevivir a la infidelidad pero no a la deslealtad? ¿Su pareja le proporciona optimismo y renovacion o es una anestesia emocional? ¿Que tal lleva terminos o expresiones como fidelidad, amor eterno, complicidad, compañerismo trabajo diario? Laura Kipnis pone sobre la mesa no solo estos, sino otros muchos aspectos espinosos sobre nuestra infinita busqueda del amor eterno, sobre todo en relacion con los recurrentes puntos de la fidelidad y el engaño. Examina de un modo incisivo el significado y la importancia culitural del adulterio, argumentando que quiza la pregunta se refiere no solo a la eleccion de ser o no ser fiel, sino tambien al fin de esta vanagloriada fidelidad. Investiga las reglas y los rituales de la vida en pareja y los asuntos domesticos. Argumenta las multiples razones por las que "trabajar en/por tu relacion" solo es un modo mas de someternos a las faenas" del amor y la etica del

In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world?COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual suspectsmen, the mediaKipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves. Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail.Is anatomy destiny after all? An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and womens ambivalence about it, The Female Thing breathes provocative new life into that age-old question.

A polemic against love that is engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose (The New Yorker).Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It wont injure you (well not severely); its just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.