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	January 11, 2008

Friday Flashback -- Against Love This week's Friday Flashback is my article from March 2005, entitled Against Love: Love Politics Revisited. Summary: Author Laura Kipnis argues in her book Against Love that monogamy is unnatural and unhealthy, and possibly complicit in our emotional detachment from political life and our ecosystem as well. Her argument is consistent with Glenn Parton's argument in his essay Love Politics. Quotes: Whether it's "on the relationship" or "on the job" get yourself right to the therapist's office, pronto. There are only two possible diagnoses for all such modern ailments: it's going to be either "intimacy issues" or "authority issues". You'll soon discover that the disease doubles as the prescription at this clinic: You're just going to have to "work harder on yourself"... Domestic coupledom is the boot camp for compliant citizenship, a training ground for gluey resignation and immobility... The illustration at right is from Peter Steiner in The New Yorker, artwork and other items for sale in the Cartoon Bank. 6:15:54 PM  trackback []  comment []

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