Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl Quotes

“The Young Girl knows everything as devoid of consequences, even her own suffering. Everything is funny, nothing's a big deal. Everything is cool, nothing is serious.”
― Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“The Young-Girl's ass is a global village.”
― Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“Deep down inside, the Young-Girl has the personality of a tampon: She exemplifies all of the appropriate indifference, all of the necessary coldness demanded by the conditions of metropolitan life.”
― Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“The Young-Girl's impotence or frigidity concretely manifest that her own erotic power is detached from her and autonomized to the point of dominating her.”
― Tiqqun , Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“In the anorexic Young-Girl and in the ascetic ideal, there’s the same hatred of the flesh and the fantasy of reducing oneself to physical purity: the skeleton. The Young-Girl suffers from what we could call the "angel complex": She aspires to a perfection that would consist in having no body. Anorexia expresses, at the level of the commodity, the most incontinent disgust for them, and for the vulgarity of all wealth. In all of her bodily manifestations, the Young-Girl signifies an impatient rage to abolish matter and time. She is a body without soul dreaming she's a soul without a body.”
― Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“The Young-Girl covets commodities with an eye filled with envy, because she sees her prototype in them, that is, she sees herself, only more perfect. What remains of her humanity is not only what she lacks in commodity perfection, it is also the cause of all her suffering. It is this remaining humanity, therefore, that she must eradicate.”
― Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“La adolescencia es una categoría reciente creada por las exigencias del consumo de masas.”
― Tiqqun, Primeros materiales para una teoría de la Jovencita (Acuarela & A. Machado nº 33)