TGS Live: The Exhaustion of the West, Life after Death, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
In this recording from my most recent livestream with TGS editor Mark Sussman, we discuss Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission. It imagines a scenario in which, through ordinary elections and parliamentary negotiations, the Muslim Brotherhood takes power in France. I seriously doubt such a scenario is possible in the foreseeable future, but then I don't think Houellebecq is prognosticating. Rather, he uses this imaginative gambit to interrogate the contradictions of secular democracy and small-L liber...Read more:
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