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==Sexual markets and Michel Clouscard== | ==Sexual markets and Michel Clouscard== | ||
The novel was likely (somewhat) influenced by the writings of the French Marxist Sociologist [[Michel Clouscard]], who | The novel was likely (somewhat) influenced by the writings of the French Marxist Sociologist [[Michel Clouscard]], who had a similar train of though. Clouscard and who has notably critiqued the sexual revolution as aiming to promote consumption and distract the exploited class from their economic oppression by promoting hedonism and sexual license.<ref> https://philitt.fr/2019/02/28/le-capitalisme-selon-houellebecq-une-lutte-perpetuelle-qui-ne-peut-jamais-avoir-de-fin-1-3/ In French.</ref> There exists (shallow) debate over whether Houellebecq thinks that sexual relations can even have a positive effect on society at all because of mixed signals on his attitudes toward romance and sex in his books. Clouscard, indirectly criticized feminism as transactional and consumerist. Cloudcard described the sexual marketplace being entirely the domian of rich people, whereas Houellebecq's characters described the sexual marketplace as all-encompassing. Feminism was simply another example of things being allowed, but not possible. Clouscard argued that it has served to divide the working class against itself (by agitating women against men, through labeling all men as oppressive "Phallocrats") in what he has dubbed "The prostitution economy."<ref> http://www.marxisme.wikibis.com/michel_clouscard.php In French.</ref> | ||
The novel was made into a [[Whatever - Extension du domaine de la lutte (movie)|film in 1999]]. | The novel was made into a [[Whatever - Extension du domaine de la lutte (movie)|film in 1999]]. | ||
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Its acknowledgement of a social hierarchy as being instinctive to human sexuality makes it arguably the most [[Blackpill|blackpilled]] novel in history.<ref>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/whatever-1994-by-michel-houellebecq-a-superb-declaration-of-hostilities-1.3919923</ref> | Its acknowledgement of a social hierarchy as being instinctive to human sexuality makes it arguably the most [[Blackpill|blackpilled]] novel in history.<ref>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/whatever-1994-by-michel-houellebecq-a-superb-declaration-of-hostilities-1.3919923</ref> | ||
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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||