How Will the World End?: Posthumanist Vision and Re-connection with Life in Cyclonopedia and Hotel Western Xia via The Possibility of An Island
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In Houellebecq’s most recent novel, The Possibility of an Island, heonce again plays with his ambivalence toward life by exposing to us thefutility of love/sex and for that matter death. Seen against the doomsdayfever that has become popular in the last few years, his apocalypticvision seems particularly disturbing in that he has presented a prolongeddoomsday through a dystopic rendering of the cult of the body. But twoother novels, Cyclonopedia by an Iranian named Reza Negarestani andHotel of Western Xia by a Taiwanese (Chinese in exile) named Yi-junLuo, help modify this vision by laying bare what cripples Houellebecq:an impossibility to feel Life as defined by Deleuze or the Real proposedby Lacan. However, as each of the two novels also presents an apocalypticvision— one on the Middle East crisis as the revenge of Earth on theSolar Capitalism and the other on the toll communal politics takes onhuman communication, they do not really present us with visions thatcompletely turn Houellebecq’s around. In fact, they seem to approximatethe doomsday prophecy even further precisely because of their havinghad contact with Life, that raw force which underlies as well as threatenshuman existence. Nevertheless, the cognition of Life will be a first stepthat leads us away from a thorough nihilism or for that matter completedestruction of the world we have been living in, imperfect as it is.
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In Houellebecq’s most recent novel, The Possibility of an Island, heonce again plays with his ambivalence toward life by exposing to us thefutility of love/sex and for that matter death. Seen against the doomsdayfever that has become popular in the last few years, his apocalypticvision seems particularly disturbing in that he has presented a prolongeddoomsday through a dystopic rendering of the cult of the body. But twoother novels, Cyclonopedia by an Iranian named Reza Negarestani andHotel of Western Xia by a Taiwanese (Chinese in exile) named Yi-junLuo, help modify this vision by laying bare what cripples Houellebecq:an impossibility to feel Life as defined by Deleuze or the Real proposedby Lacan. However, as each of the two novels also presents an apocalypticvision— one on the Middle East crisis as the revenge of Earth on theSolar Capitalism and the other on the toll communal politics takes onhuman communication, they do not really present us with visions thatcompletely turn Houellebecq’s around. In fact, they seem to approximatethe doomsday prophecy even further precisely because of their havinghad contact with Life, that raw force which underlies as well as threatenshuman existence. Nevertheless, the cognition of Life will be a first stepthat leads us away from a thorough nihilism or for that matter completedestruction of the world we have been living in, imperfect as it is.
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