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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontents
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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