In this paper I undertake an investigation of the meaning of sexual difference for Tiqqun’s theory of the Young Girl, which describes a commodified subjectivity in the neoliberal age. Tiqqun’s claim, that Young Girl is not to be understood as a gendered concept but rather as a détournement of the capitalist girl archetype, is put in relation to Jennifer Boyds development of their theory. According to Boyd’s interpretation of Young Girl as an embodied, gendered subjectivity, she can resist the control of the Empire by transforming from non-agency to pure agency, the latter being the state Boyd coins Strange Girl. In order to understand the radical notions that seem to follow from interpreting Young Girl in terms of gendered subjectivity, I apply Paul B. Preciado’s theory of techno-gender in the pharmacopornographic era to Tiqqun and Boyd respectively. Preciado’s theory offers a way of addressing Young Girl as a specific embodied subject and holder of a potentia gaudendi, an orgasmic potential that is either exploiting or being exploited depending on the bearers techno-gender. To conclude, this essay offers up a re-reading of Young Girl as being the exploited techno femininity that transform, via molecular gender and sex-hacking, into Strange Girl and orgasmic agency. Thereby she performs an actual, and not symbolical, resistance against the biopower performed by the Empire. / <p>Presenterad vid Seminariet i feministisk kontinentalfilosofi i Stockholm, 12 oktober 2018</p><p></p><p></p>

La finalidad de este trabajo es analizar la obra Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo, utilizando la simbología para demostrar nuestra hipótesis, que Juan Preciado está muerto al emprender su viaje a Comala. El método utilizado es el método hermenéutico, para rellenar los huecos del texto, contando lo que no se percibe en una primera lectura, a través de un análisis textual. La parte analítica está dividida en dos. En la primera parte basamos nuestro análisis en los símbolos del texto y en la segunda efectuamos una lectura basada en otros indicios que no sean simbólicos. Hemos efectuado nuestro trabajo utilizando desde la primera página de la obra hasta que Juan se encuentra en la tumba con Dorotea, y también algunas de las conversaciones que mantienen allí.

This thesis examines the implications of Preciado’s 'Testo Junkie' for our understanding of subjectivity and human rights. Preciado’s political project of embodied and performative selfexperimentation with testosterone constructs a self against normalization techniques and static identities. As such, it may be read in line with postmodern critiques that complicate the justification of the human rights project. Adami’s theory of the narratable self and human rights is deployed in a narrative analysis structured as a thematic close reading of Preciado’s text. This is accomplished by identifying four themes within Adami’s approach that structure the analysis of Testo Junkie: narration as political subjectification; equality of difference and uniqueness; the singular other and relationality; and fluidity, becoming and learning. Within these categories, significant common ground between Preciado’s ideas and a human rights narrative framework is found. This points to the possibilities a discursive human rights theory that focuses on narratives may hold for reading transgressive projects of justice aligned with postmodern understandings of the self such as Preciado’s.