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Chapter 3 explores Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl as a prose poem that elaborates the exploration of the capitalist worker-subject begun by Picabia and Duchamp. The chapter makes a case for this subgenre in order to argue for why this particular formal and historicist device is necessary to convey content to a new generation of readers who are fully subjugated to capital yet interested in a counterpraxis and counterlogistics in order to thrive. This is where the avant-gardist manifesto or futurist prose poem gains greatest currency.