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Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young Girl
by Tiqqun
Published by Semiotext(e)
142p, b&w, softcover, 4.5"x7"
$13.95
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"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."