Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

Name: Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
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ISBN: 9781584351085

ISBN-10: 158435108X

ISBN-13: 9781584351085

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tiqqun, Ariana Reines, Hedi El Kholti

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The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.--from Theory of the Young-GirlFirst published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibility of love under Empire. The Young-Girl is consumer society's total product and model citizen: whatever "type" of Young-Girl she may embody, whether by whim or concerted performance, she can only seduce by consuming. Filled with the language of French women's magazines, rooted in Proust's figure of Albertine and the amusing misery of (teenage) romance in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke, and…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: semiotexte Limited
Publication date: 6/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.49" wide x 6.89" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Tiqqun is a French collective of authors and activists formed in 1999. The group published two journal volumes in 1999 and 2001 (in which the collective author "The Invisible Committee" first appeared), as well as the books Theorie du Bloomand Theorie de la jeune fille.



Preliminaries



The Young-Girl as Phenomenon



The Young-Girl as Technique of the Self



The Young-Girl as Social Relation



The Young-Girl as Commodity



The Young-Girl as Living Currency



The Young-Girl as Compact Political Apparatus



The Young-Girl as War Machine



The Young-Girl Against Communism



The Young-Girl Against Herself



Putting an End to the Young-Girl