Despite being written in the 90s, a lot of the ideas have become more relevant with the advent of social media and dating apps - platforms where users literally create advertisements for themselves and generate "value" that is expressed through some metric like follows or likes. "The young-girl is the crystallization of a certain quantity of labor spent to put her in accordance with the norms of a certain type of exchange. The form of her appearance, which is also that of a commodity, is characterized by the obscuring, if not the voluntary forgetting, of this concrete labor."

the erratic/unorganized writing style, and random quotes interspersed throughout made it read like a thread on twitter or 4chan or some other insane internet forum