Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontents
Description
This section is light on plot but we do get a coherent theme: the perversions that emerge from consumer capitalism's relentless optimisation process.
will our hero Jed maintain his artistic integrity and stop feeding the beast? does Houellebecq think of himself as a kind of ethnographer? Does the g-spot actually exist? etc
benny's audio still sucks. actual book content starts at 00:06:19
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00 ) what if we kissed under the mistletoe
(00:06:19 ) is art just expensive furniture
(00:17:48 ) refining Houllebecq's actual beef with consumer capitalism
(00:21:51 ) how true creativity can be corrupted by profit motive
(00:27:42 ) b*stiality bodycount digression
(00:29:53 ) Houllebecq as neutral ethnographer
(00:36:34 ) hot people are smarter too. its not fair
(00:42:18 ) height discourse
(00:48:14 ) William Morris
(00:52:47 ) trying and failing to talk about death
(00:55:28 ) how many holes are down there anyway??
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