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Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
by
Tiqqun,
Ariana Reines (Goodreads Author)
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 tota...more
"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 tota...more
Paperback, 137 pages
Published
June 22nd 2012
by Semiotex(e)
(first published September 26th 2001)
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Consumerism really isn't very good. It produces a lot of junk and moulds the consumer in to stupid lifestyles filled with spurious choices. I hope you realise all that.
Like all works in the slipstream of situationism and "Society Of The Spectacle", this contains a few nascent original observations lost in a vortex of overstatement and skimming analysis. As usual the critique is not so very far away from the kind of stuff that traditional conservatives have been saying since the 19th century (mas...more
Like all works in the slipstream of situationism and "Society Of The Spectacle", this contains a few nascent original observations lost in a vortex of overstatement and skimming analysis. As usual the critique is not so very far away from the kind of stuff that traditional conservatives have been saying since the 19th century (mas...more
Maybe I had too high expectations for this "book" (really, the scattered fragments and aphoristic theorizing is something wholly different, more like a peek inside the laboratory of a gang of anarchists experimenting with exotic explosives that sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds in conjuring up great potential).
But I would be lying if I was saying that I was not disappointed. A friend told me, before I read it myself, that it would be good toilet reading. Which of course has more to do with...more
But I would be lying if I was saying that I was not disappointed. A friend told me, before I read it myself, that it would be good toilet reading. Which of course has more to do with...more
"Concepts made for war don’t need to be unanimous. And it’s only natural that they’d be reproached for those aspects of them in which they slander the realities that they make visible. And as for those who have successfully blinded themselves to the nonetheless massive fact of the YoungGirl, that’s not all they’re blind to. It’s not the theory of the YoungGirl that is the product of misogyny, but the YoungGirl herself. Open any women’s magazine and you’ll see. The YoungGirl’s not always young, a...more
Okay, so this is Tiqqun, and I like Tiqqun generally. I always like Ariana Reines.
I am home to so many ambivalences about this piece that I'm still processing what is going on with it. First of all: I think Tiqqun may have fucked up. I'll update this review when I have a more coherent idea of why I think that. This fucking book. God. It's great.
Whatever I come to conclude, I think that: A) It's super important for feminism to digest this book and come up with something. B) I want more things wri...more
I am home to so many ambivalences about this piece that I'm still processing what is going on with it. First of all: I think Tiqqun may have fucked up. I'll update this review when I have a more coherent idea of why I think that. This fucking book. God. It's great.
Whatever I come to conclude, I think that: A) It's super important for feminism to digest this book and come up with something. B) I want more things wri...more
Tiqqun writes in heavy sociological and anthropological words. In the introduction, she warns readers it is a book with no apparent order in which she inserts her snippets of wisdom on being a girl. Her theory is one in which young girls are becoming packaged, lifeless living things that are displayed, presented, and bought in society mainly due to our capital society. I still don't buy it yet... I wish she would explain herself more. I am familiar with this theory, but examples would probably h...more
I read an English zine version that can be found here http://zinelibrary.info/tiqqun-theory...
This is an incredibly blunt and often vicious analysis of the totality of the spectacle's grip on daily life. Tiqqun starts from the assumption that the colonization of the daily life is complete and then goes on the explore how our very lives and personalities have been transformed into commodities. To do this they provide a scathing analysis of what the deem the basic unit of current spectacular cultu...more
This is an incredibly blunt and often vicious analysis of the totality of the spectacle's grip on daily life. Tiqqun starts from the assumption that the colonization of the daily life is complete and then goes on the explore how our very lives and personalities have been transformed into commodities. To do this they provide a scathing analysis of what the deem the basic unit of current spectacular cultu...more
Jesus this is terrible. Have you ever thought that misogynistic jokes generally don't last long enough, and would be better in a dry, pseudo-ironically ultraleftist style? Do you like fonts - I mean, a lot of fonts? If so, this is the book for you!
Harshly satirical manifesto that sets aim to chastise the Spectacle's feminization and youthification as the main strategies of subject-formation
Got me fundamentally deeply angry, in an unsure and self-critical way, although in retrospect I think it's too deeply misogynistic (and all the anti-artificiality that goes with) to be lauded as a screed of radical cultural critique. The ADHD experimental structure is effective, though.
This is the funniest book. To increase the humor, check out reviews from fellow feminists of Goodreads who see this as essentialist insulting shit. This book is offensive! But manages to prove a point about the production of a 21st century "girl" culture where women too take on the role of a powerless cutesy reproducer of capitalism.
this book is terrible someone take it away from me
Twitter, for men.
This book made me self-loathe, but it also made me smile 'til my face hurt. It's full of beautiful lines that sting, and critique that feels new. Just read it.
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