"the Young-Girl is crazy about the authentic because it's a lie."
Kim was tweeting quotes from this recently.
This is the theory de jeune fille, written by someone from the milleu of french anarcho communist collective Tiqqun, who went on to become international artists/trainline disruptors.
Watch a documentary based on it
here.
Or d/l an extract
here.
Or read a version of it
here.
As one amazon.co.uk commentator memorably surmises:
" Finally I realize why even old hairy men smell like temple prostitutes these days.
Everyone must have a sexual relationship with capital. etc."
(its called "jeune fille" but it applies to men as well.
Some quotes:
the Young-Girl knows the value of things ever so well.
Often, before decomposing too visibly, the Young-Girl gets married.
The Young-Girl is good for nothing but consuming; leisure or work, it makes no difference.
because of its having been put on a level of equivalence with all intimacy in general, the Young-Girl's intimacy has become something anonymous, exterior, and objectlike.
The Young-Girl never creates anything; she re-creates herself.
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The Young-Girl is a reality as massive and brittle as the Spectacle.
Like all transitional forms, the Young-Girl is an oxymoron. She is also the first case of an asceticism without an ideal, of materialist penitence.
Cowardly devoted to the caprices of the Young-Girl, we've learned to detest her while obeying her.
The present sexual misery in no way resembles that of the past, because these are now bodies without desire, burning up inside because they can't satisfy these desires they don't have.
Over the course of its metastatic development, seduction has lost intensity while increasing its extension. Amorous discourse has never been so poor as it is now when everyone feels the duty to sing its praises and comment on it.
The Young-Girl doesn't look like a dead body, as one might presume from reading women's magazines; she looks like death itself.
Everyone looks to sell themselves and no one can manage to do it convincingly.
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PS. The anti intellectual contingent of syg, with their oh so witty sneer based humour and reduction of things to a short list of references they can quickly reel off while showing a truly devastating cynical indifference, could just fuck off in advance.