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Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq is a contemporary French novelist and poet whose work explores themes of decay, degradation, and the dissolution of human meaning in late capitalism and technological society. The course readings cite him to establish a literary genealogy for representing non-human life, entropy, and the creeping persistence of death within living systems—his poetry on fungal decomposition and vegetative processes grounds philosophical arguments about how organic matter and consciousness collapse into undifferentiated matter. His engagement with these themes positions him as a crucial figure for understanding how art and literature process the anxieties of technological posthumanism that the seminar addresses.
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