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Tiqqun is at the tail end of a radical tradition that has largely exhausted its usefulness.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryDoing so, Man-Children overlook the fact that social reproduction—the work of having and raising kids—is not mere replication. It can be creative. That is, it might offer opportunities for social transformation.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New Inquirydaydreams about nature’s taking over where it left off.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryThe bourgeois Man-Child who refuses to “grow up,” refuses to mate, and refuses domestic labor resembles the radical who wants to bide his time until capitalism collapses from within. Perhaps the most extreme example of Man-Child politics is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, which proposes that doing nothing might be the only way left to save the world.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryThe rhetorical strategy of Theory of the Young-Girl is to remain undecidable: Its self-ironizing speaker refuses to settle the question of whether the book is in fact sexist or just impersonating someone sexist in order to make its point.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTiqqun resembles the mainstream Man-Child to the extent that everything that it does is a delaying tactic, a way of putting off the future.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryIn many workplaces, including academic departments, this means that race becomes the “job” of people of color; sexual politics the “job” of people who are female and/or queer and/or transgendered.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryIn many radical political groups in the 20th century, sex and gender were treated as issues for “after the revolution.”
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryEven the messy style of Theory of the Young-Girl ends up creating more unacknowledged labor: the exegesis it requires. In his glamorous obscurantism, the Man-Child cries for a dutiful interpreter to come and tidy up.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryIn institutions that reward competence with more unpaid labor, the Man-Child needs the Grown Woman to take care of him, and she needs him to need her.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquirySo when one asks whether we would like to co-author a paper, undertaking all the translation for it because he does not “do languages,” we try to shake it off.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTheory of the Young-Girl shares a rhetorical strategy with texts that have been far more widely diffused and discussed. Their quips about tampons and Young-Girls’ body parts, which they insist are “not gendered,” resemble the cringe-inducing song about seeing actresses’ “boobs” that Seth MacFarlane wrote for the Oscars and Daniel Tosh’s much-discussed off-the-cuff rape joke.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryLift out any one line to object to it—“Wait a minute, how has all the concreteness of the world taken refuge in my ass?”—and you would be sure to look foolish, even if you did know whom to ask.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryBecause Tiqqun’s collage does not attribute sources, we can read any given passage in disavowing quotation marks, as a lightning bolt of original insight, or as both.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTiqqun assumes that readers will assume that writers so well versed in texts that have spoken truth to power could not really hate women.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTiqqun uses works of Continental philosophy in the same way that schoolyard bullies use in-jokes: as passwords that grant access to a protected inner circle.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTiqqun’s language may be obscene, but its point is nothing new.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTiqqun offers an edgy update to such misogynist metaphors deployed for the purposes of demystification.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryBut he borrows the language of his predecessors only to show how their quest failed—proposing, for instance, in Human, All Too Human that “women, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks.”
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryMore often, however, they blame the Young-Girl for opening the floodgates by complying with her own exploitation, thus making it easier for control capitalism to make her attitude compulsory for everyone.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryIn the postindustrial era, work and leisure grow increasingly indistinguishable: We are all shop girls now.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryWhen affective relationships become part of work, we overinvest our economic life with erotic value.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryTiqqun knows and says what the Lifestyle section does or cannot: Today the economy is feminizing everyone.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryThe Grown Woman feels like a bad mom when she sees the crafts and organic snacks that other moms are posting on Pinterest. She wonders whether feminism lied to her, but knows she will inherit the earth.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryWomen’s long history of performing work without its even being acknowledged as work, much less compensated fairly, may account for their relative success in today’s white-collar economy.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryMany jobs that used to be meal tickets for starving artists are now considered covetable and require “love.”
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryIn the culture sector, economic precarity constantly reminds employees of their expendability and, therefore, the importance of their investing affect in their workplace.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryWhen job listings ask for “a worker with a good attitude,” what they want, say Hardt and Negri, is a smile.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryAntonio Negri and Michael Hardt later used the phrase “affective labor” to describe the emotional exertion that white-collar jobs increasingly require.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryNamely, are women better suited to the new economy because they are easier to exploit?
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryMancession Lit portrays the Man-Child as pitiful, contrasting him with women who are well-adjusted and adult.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryWe believe that Tiqqun has mistaken its object.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryAnd why are so many thoughtful people ready to accept that a layer of irony suffices to turns hateful language into the basis of a sound critique?
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryThe question remains: Why is misogyny their only option?
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryLike the nice guy from your grad-school program who tries to cover up his hurt feelings by concocting a general theory that explains why he never got a text after his one-night stand, the book portrays the Young-Girl as vain, frivolous, and acquisitive.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New Inquirythe Young-Girl as a scapegoat as much as a victim.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New Inquiry“Listen,” Tiqqun writes. “The Young-Girl is obviously not a gendered concept … The Young-Girl is simply the model citizen as redefined by consumer society.”
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryPreliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl confirmed all that we had begun to suspect.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – The New InquiryIn some cases, anonymity itself, which was supposed to express solidarity, abets sexism.
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