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??