Take a closer look at JML 47.2. JML author Klem James discusses Michel Houellebecq's views of "fluid identity" as stemming from an eroded self under neoliberalism, writing
Michel Houellebecq, arguably France’s best-known and most widely translated living author is perhaps an unlikely figure to be associated with contemporary debates about identity. Houellebecq is conservative, abused as being so, and sometimes wrongly considered to be reactionary. In his novel Submission (Soumission), he depicts France’s fate in the absence of a robust identity: having lost its moorings and sunk into a cultural and religious void, the country embraces Islam to fill the vacuum. By way of resistance, members of the French identitarian movement are depicted as the last gasp of a nation that is clambering for fixed, monocultural reference points.
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His JML 47.2 essay, “Particules Flottantes: Mutable Identity and Postmodern ‘Schizophrenia’ in the Works of Michel Houellebecq” is available for FREE, linked in the post.
