{"product_id":"preliminary-materials-for-a-theory-of-the-young-girl-paperback","title":"Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTiqqun\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAriana Reines\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e--from\u003ci\u003e Theory of the Young-Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in France in 1999, \u003ci\u003ePreliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e she can only seduce by consuming\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003e Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl\u003c\/i\u003e diagnoses--and makes visible--a phenomenon that is so ubiquitous as to have become transparent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiqqun is a French collective of authors and activists formed in 1999. The group published two journal volumes in 1999 and 2001 (in which the collective author \" \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Committee\u003c\/i\u003e\" first appeared) as well as the books \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Civil War \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not a Program \u003c\/i\u003e(both published by Semitext(e)).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 7.06 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771326890272,"sku":"9781584351085","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/87c69bac16267bd8cd50f29d9e9d2bd2.webp?v=1780384748","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/preliminary-materials-for-a-theory-of-the-young-girl-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}