The Multiplicity Tour -- Docents' Talk
For this tour, we call upon Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray as champions of multiplicity to elucidate girl as a multiplicity, one who escapes the gender binary by exceeding it.
"Let us return to the story of multiplicity, for the creation of this substantive marks a very important moment. It was created precisely in order to escape the abstract opposition between the multiple and the one, to escape dialectics, to succeed in conceiving the multiple in the pure state, to cease treating it as a numerical fragment of a lost Unity or Totality or as the organic element of a Unity or Totality yet to come, and instead distinguish between types of multiplicity." (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)
Luce Irigaray states "She is neither one nor two. Rigorously speaking, she cannot be identified either as one person, or as two. She resists all adequate definition… Her sexuality, always at least double, goes even further: it is plural." (This sex which is not one)