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20 th century. There is also a movement towards outsourcing these tasks to
women working from home or in small localized factory settings funded
by microloans that place impoverished women in the role of entrepreneurs,
who exploit the labor of their families, neighbors, and friends.
Hardt and Negri (2011) also point out the inclusion of children and
youth in the Global South and fast food franchises, social media platforms,
and the fashion industry across regimes of global capital. Child bodies are
utilized both in actual physical labor, where their small fingers serve in
industries like their mothers and sisters. But child bodies also serve as
sheer image for social media advertising and as objects of desire, as both
eroticized and idealized innocence. Images of maternal family relations are
also produced as media objects, both for reactionary political ends and as
vehicles for marketing products and services. These virtual bodies and
social assemblages of familial images operate in the realm of what might
be called symbolic affective resonance.
The body of the child as well as the role of the mother shifts from the
disciplinary registers of industrial capitalist teleological structures of
development to what Deleuze (1992) refers to as a system of infinitely
variable composition in which no one ever arrives. The child is no longer
completing developmental tasks predetermined by their ‘stage’ of
development. Instead, stages, as conceptual spaces of containment, are
blown open and children’s movement across time is marked by a call to be
all one can be: to exceed any limitation imposed by age, neurology, or
physical composition.
Deleuze (1992) calls this “the logic of control” and posits it against the
industrial model of discipline. The spaces of development that produce the
child as a series of partial stages leading to the finished product of a
thoroughly bourgeois adult give way to an infinite series of modulations
and transmutations each of which opens the child to increasingly flexible
modes of appropriation and exploitation at all levels. As Deleuze notes that
under the regimes of industrial capitalism, “The different internments or
spaces of enclosure through which the individual passes are independent
variables: each time one is supposed to start from zero, and although a