Do You Even Lit?

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??

Some good stuff coming up already in part 1 of The Map and The Territory: how our models of the world can change underlying physical reality is modern art a psyop? why plato would hate 'brand-name' tourism experience benny's audio is completely cooked on this. I lost the files so I can't fix it sorry CHAPTERS (00:00:00) playdough’s cave (00:04:01) is modern art a psyop (00:07:59) straussian readings of plato (00:12:21) map-territory distinction (00:16:21) jed is a true artist (00:25:00) raising children without the threat of physical violence (00:31:00) what blows jed’s skirt up? (00:40:40) woody allen goat (00:44:10) rotten tomatoes manufactures mediocrity (00:51:33) its good art brent! (00:53:20) when the map changes the underlying territory, part 1 (00:58:05) wanky status signals can still mediate subjective experience (01:05:50) modern books are easier to read (01:11:42) when the map changes the underlying territory, part 2