Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl A theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.The Young-Girl is not always young;…
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Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
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. --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. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.
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 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.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
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