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an alternative version of family life. Mothers and their children, most particularly their daughters, emerge as one of those primary love objects. This is the effect of destabilising patriarchy. Heterosexual romance is consequently, mostly transitory. The elaborate network of women, their children and friends create a kind of viable, social, alternative, and new way of being in the world

The nomad subject is a residuum, someone born in the space between the act of producing and the product. The nomad then functions, as a kind of terrorist, undermining the familial course of capital.
nomadic women fail to produce surplus value-inheritance citizenship, and the reproduction of bourgeois culture. Nomadic women are dangerous to the patriarchal landscape of capital.

the nomad operates as "schizophrenic" producing nothing, lacking obvious objective, relations, desiring only desire. The desiring-production, subjugates social production… We are claiming the famous right to laziness, to non productivity, to dream and fantasy production.

as Joan Didian reminds us in her essay, the White album, writing consists of the, fictive imposition of a narrative line upon the inexplicable and shifting phantasmagoria of experience

women function as diversion, scenery, and romantic support for the heroes largest quest. In this traditional analysis of the road narrative, women exist, typically, as objects, rather than subjects