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Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) Paperback – June 22, 2012

by Tiqqun (Author), Hedi El Kholti (Series Editor), Ariana Reines (Translator)

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A theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.

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-Girl

First 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 informed by Pierre Klossowski's notion of “living currency” and libidinal economy, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl diagnoses―and makes visible―a phenomenon that is so ubiquitous as to have become transparent.

In the years since the book's first publication in French, the worlds of fashion, shopping, seduction plans, makeover projects, and eating disorders have moved beyond the comparatively tame domain of paper magazines into the perpetual accessibility of Internet culture. Here the Young-Girl can seek her own reflection in corporate universals and social media exchanges of “personalities” within the impersonal realm of the marketplace. Tracing consumer society's colonization of youth and sexuality through the Young-Girl's “freedom” (in magazine terms) to do whatever she wants with her body, Tiqqun exposes the rapaciously competitive and psychically ruinous landscape of modern love.

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Tiqqun is a French collective of authors and activists formed in 1999. Their journal was the first to publish the collective author “The Invisible Committee.” Tiqqun's books include Introduction to Civil War, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, and This Is Not a Program (all published by Semiotext(e)).

Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series (Book 12)
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Semiotext(e) (June 22, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781584351085
ISBN-13: 978-1584351085
ASIN: 158435108X
Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.4 x 7 inches
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Average Customer Review: 12 customer reviews
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- #1259 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Gender Studies
- #1654 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies

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only real Foucault homies readin dis

February 27, 2018

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So good. It's about how capitalism/fascism/biopolitics invades the identities of the most marginalized via control of bodies and... bitch... tru dat.

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Samantha Walker

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Very interesting read. Certainly thought provoking and honest about the modern situation.

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Tiqqun for the future.

January 14, 2017

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Tiqqun to be read when you do't know wht to do next.

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Tied of the same-old crypto-normativist treaties? Does your autonomous heteronomy get in the way of your heteronomous autonomy? Find yourself sick and tired of straddling the line between readerly texts and writerly texts?

If so then this book is for you! The Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl will grant you the intellectual fortitude you need to spend your time contemplating the colonization of the body by the systematic attacks of the capitalist system. If you HAVE, or WANT, a keen understanding of how misogyny simultaneously celebrates and denigrates love and beauty then this is the book you NEED.

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the-young-girl-is-not-a-gendered-term-my-ass.

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eurydike

Fantasmagoric political Joyce

July 2, 2012

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This review is a commodity space for the advertisement of the liquidity of our collective integrity.

I say we march, but only if it gets on all the major media.

Congratulations. You are confused.

When things fall apart, let them fall apart.

My life is the way the seabird flies.

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dominique janine

a good book in your collection

January 11, 2016

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i feel that some of the negative reviewers missed the point of this book

the young girl is actually an example of the effects of capitalism in modern times (of which yes, the literal young girl has been made an example of because statistically they're a marketing strategists goldmine).

this book comments on how the recycling of useless mantras (#liveauthentically, tumblr quotes, meaningless lyrics, #relatable) is hurting the minds of young people

women being taught their value lies in beauty and appearance

so rather than regard this as an attack, take from it and ponder your life in retrospect

its not a feminist bible by any means, but rather observations. i do agree the language isn't the best (prostitutes)

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Trash lit

January 16, 2017

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This book is idiotic, the sort of stuff privileged white and white-at-heart artists can't get enough of.

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