A new book by a Northwestern professor explores the lockdown experiences of singles and couples, and new approaches to love, intimacy and vulnerability.
Author Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches filmmaking.As a registered domesticity-resister, for the last ten or twelve pre-COVID years my own coupled life had been conducted in a state of contentiously romantic semi- compatibility, in two separate one-bedroom apartments in New York City. One was uptown in Harlem and the other downtown in Chelsea, maybe twenty-five minutes apart on the subway.
From three or four nights a week together, we went to spending seven nights and days a week together, working from home, nowhere to go. The streets were ghostlike and cold. “My schedule for today lists a six- hour self-accusatory depression,” to borrow from the Philip K. Dick mental health handbook, which fairly approximated my own mental state.
Despite having authored a book mocking the strictures of coupled domesticity, I became perversely energetic about, for instance, policing the household alcohol consumption because drinking suppresses the immune system and I didn’t want my mate dropping dead of this malignant fucking virus and leaving me alone, a state I used to savor but the prospect of which now felt terrifying.
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