"Society's final moment of socialization, Empire, is thus also the moment when each person is called upon to relate to themselves as value, that is, according to the central mediation of a series of controlled abstractions. The Young-Girl would thus be the being that no longer has any intimacy with herself except as value, and whose every activity, in every detail, is directed to self-valorization. At each moment, she affirms herself as sovereign subect of her own reification. The unquestionable character of her power, all of the crushing assurance of this flattened being, woven exlusively by the conventions, codes, and representations fleetingly in effect, all the authority that the least of her gestures incarnates, all of this is immediately indexed to her absolute transparency to 'society.'
Precisely because of her nothingness, each of her judgements carries the imperative weight of the entire social order, and she knows it."
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