#tiqqun

In 2023, internet theory spawned the never-ending pink, puckered hole of “Girl Theory” that metastasised into various lines of thought centred on the marketability of the female ingénue. The girl became both a haunting spectre and a praxis. First, an idea, then a splintering of endless archetypes enacted by real people in the online world: clean girl, e-girl, silly girl, girl online, girl offline, cottagecore girl, goth girl, non-girl: girl. To be a ‘girl’ is to stand in opposition to hegemony while simultaneously succumbing to it—cosplaying rebellion while syncing perfectly with the algorithm. To be a girl is to manipulate social codes, to encode language in order to survive, thrive, and profit. She is both a cipher of freedom and a symbol of absolute conformity. As described by internet researcher Alex Quicho, the girl is a symbolic non-entity defined by ‘its’ value, a politically ambivalent vessel favoured by corporations and nation-states alike, greeting us with the blank and hapless stare of soft power. By 2025, it seems inconceivable that something as ephemeral as girlhood could only recently have been adopted en masse by digital communities. Today, techno-optimism has birthed a new, dreaded era marked by what some call the ‘broligarchy’ – a blend of oligarchy and broism – as prolific as girlhood once was. The girlboss-influencer fades into obscurity, irrelevance. In her place, a sweaty fist clutches your feed, courtesy of Silicon Valley’s digital overlords, and heckles you with a rebranded American Dream. The question remains: who does the girl work for now, and is she still with us?

Tiqqun I

Of Course You Know This Means War

What Is Critical Metaphysics?

Theory of Bloom

Phenomenology Of Everyday Life

Theses on the Imaginary Party

Silence and Beyond

On the Economy Considered as Black Magic

Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl

Machine-Men: a Users Guide

The Critical Metaphysicians beneath the ‘Unemployed Persons’ Movement

Marginal Considerations on the Present Movement

The Jobless Speak

A Few Scandalous Actions of the Imaginary Party

Tiqqun II

Introduction to Civil War & How Is It To Be Done

Final Warning to the Imaginary Party Regarding Public Space

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

The Conquerors Had Won Easily

Theses on the Terrible Community

Untitled Notes on Immigration

The Problem of the Head

Progress doesn't want Those that don't want Progress

Stop Domesti(caf)tion

Robert Walser Quote

Report to the SASC Concerning an Imperial Apparatus

Notes on the Local

The Little Game of the Man of the Old Regime

You're never too Old to Ditch Out

Sonogram of a Potential

Hello!

This is not a Program & Critical Metaphysics could be born as a Science of Apparatuses

Commentary

- Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War

"In the state of nature, trade is something people do to their enemies. They don’t trade with kin."

El mañana queda anulado

Todas las razones para hacer una revolución están ahí. No hace falta ninguna. El naufragio de la política, la arrogancia de los poderosos, el reino de lo falso, la vulgaridad de los ricos, los cataclismos de la industria, la miseria galopante, la explotación desnuda, el apocalipsis ecológico — nada nos lo ahorra, ni siquiera estar informados de todo esto. «Clima: 2016 supera un récord de calor», titula Le Monde como ya casi todos los años. Todas las razones están reunidas, pero las razones no son lo que hacen las revoluciones, son los cuerpos. Y los cuerpos se encuentran frente a las pantallas.