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avaafran's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
At times, exquisite and insightful. So many thoughts I had otherwise been unable to articulate. But so much is so dense to the point of almost being unreadable. Maybe Im not educated enough for this book.
fcty's review against another edition
ermm so far i do agree with alot of the ideas put forth. I think my problem lies with the presentation of the material, especially in the earlier sections where the Young-Girl is spoken of in broader, generalised strokes. though Tiqqun states in the beginning that the Young-Girl can be someone of any gender and age, most of the quotes are gendered female and seem to be referring to a very narrow demographic. this could be the point since the Young-Girl is a product of capitalism (and thus more an idea than a real person) but the way Tiqqun present their thesis makes it hard to see how non-women fit into this. Not to mention that some of the quotes - exclamations about minor details of physical apprearance (“I’m gonna do whatever I want with my hair!”), or one liners that are not expanded upon, which can come across as mocking and derogatory. It’s probably a matter of semantics, since it’s hard to read the phrase Young-Girl without thinking of, well, a young girl, and so this book comes across as an anonymous collective yelling at women for being vapid and stupid enough to fall for capitalism’s traps, to the point where I’m wondering if they are still talking about Young-Girl as a concept or if they have a more personal vitrile for women.
nia_abeni's review against another edition
4.0
mind = blown! this book was hard to follow at times but after rereading the same sentences over and over again it began to click… such an interesting and thought provoking critique on consumer culture, this is something i will hopefully reference and refer back to for forever. some of my favorite quotes:
“The Young-Girl exists only in proportion to the desire that THEY have for her, and knows herself only by what THEY say she is. The Young-Girl appears as the product and the principal outcome of the formidable surplus crisis of capitalist modernity.” 34
“The Young-Girl is never worried about herself, but only about her value. Thus, when she encounters hatred, she is struck by doubt: Has her market value dropped?” 80
“It is through the Young-Girl that capitalism has managed to extend its hegemony to the totality of social life. She is the most obstinate pawn of market domination in a war whose objective remains the total control of daily life and ‘production’ time.” 107
“The Young-Girl exists only in proportion to the desire that THEY have for her, and knows herself only by what THEY say she is. The Young-Girl appears as the product and the principal outcome of the formidable surplus crisis of capitalist modernity.” 34
“The Young-Girl is never worried about herself, but only about her value. Thus, when she encounters hatred, she is struck by doubt: Has her market value dropped?” 80
“It is through the Young-Girl that capitalism has managed to extend its hegemony to the totality of social life. She is the most obstinate pawn of market domination in a war whose objective remains the total control of daily life and ‘production’ time.” 107
oribentham's review against another edition
3.0
tuvo bueno pero idk esperaba algo más profundo o mejor desarrollado
neoludification's review against another edition
3.5
Sharp and fun. Probably best read as a keen post-Marxist diagnosis of how post-WWII European consumer society has repurposed women's liberation in order to facilitate the commodification of all human beings. The archetype of the "Young-Girl" is not necessarily or exclusively female, but the way the book is written does give the analysis an unmistakably misogynistic tone. This is partly ironic and even quite productive in some ways, but like the book that has clearly inspired this one, Jean Baudrillard's Seduction (1979), one cannot help but wonder if the misogyny of the text and of capital itself haven't rubbed off on its author(s) juuuust a little.
shane_marble's review against another edition
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!
qabrein's review against another edition
I need to come back to this after reading Baudrillard and Debord. I'm not sure if I really understood it.
frogwithlittlehammer's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
This was so funny and so accurate to me. Maybe I just feel cool because I understand that this isn’t a shitpost about young girls for real but about the conceptions of the perfect consumer within the spectacle. But I think I also enjoyed it for being about ~young-girlhood~ too, and the way men and “they” desire.