Abstract
In their article "Leisure and Posthumanism in Houellebecq's Platform and Lanzarote" Nuriot Buchweitz and Elie Cohen-Gewerc analyze Michel Houellebecq's novels in the context of leisure studies. They posit that in particular in Platform and Lanzarote Houellebecq explores leisure practices available in industrial societies marked by consumer culture. Further, Buchweitz and Cohen-Gewerc argue that the abundant depictions of leisure in Houellbecq's texts is not unintentional because he introduces the concept of the posthuman condition and rethinks agency and human selfhood as a consequence of the collapse of subjectivity. Employing postmodern indeterminacy, Houellebecq explores contemporary mores and debates the extinction of the individual "I" and its substitution by an empty being whose essence is cast into doubt owing the irreconcilable co-existence of capitalism and technology.
Recommended Citation
Buchweitz, Nurit;
and Cohen-Gewerc, Elie.
"Leisure and Posthumanism in Houellebecq's Platform and Lanzarote."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
17.4
(2015):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2528>
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