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Мишель Уэльбек. Interventions 2020
CONTENTS
Guide
Pages
Interventions 2020
1 Jacques Prévert is a jerk
Notes
2 The Mirage by Jean-Claude Guiguet
3 Approaches to distress
Contemporary architecture as a vector for speeding up movements
Building the shelves
Simplifying the calculations
A brief history of information
The onset of weariness
The world as supermarket and derision
The poetry of arrested movement
Notes
4 Staring into the distance: in praise of silent cinema
5 Interview with Jean-Yves Jouannais and Christophe Duchâtelet
Notes
6 Art as peeling
7 Creative absurdity
Notes
8 The party
What the hell am I doing with these jerks?
Gathering together to have fun
Gathering together to fight (student demonstrations, environmental gatherings, talk shows in the suburbs)
Gathering together to fuck (sex clubs, private orgies, some New Age groups)
Gathering together to celebrate (masses, pilgrimages)
Partying without tears
Notes
9 Time out. What are you looking for here?
The German
Lowering the retirement age
Calais, Pas–de–Calais
Metropolitan comedy
Just take it in your stride
What use are men?
The skin of the bear
Notes
10 Opera Bianca. 4"
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Notes
11 Letter to Lakis Proguidis
Notes
12 The question of paedophilia
Notes
13 Humanity, the second stage
Notes
14 Empty heavens
15 I have a dream
16 Neil Young
17 Interview with Christian Authier
Notes
18 Technical consolation
19 Sky, earth, sun
20 Leaving the twentieth century
21 Philippe Muray in 2002
Notes
22 Towards a semi-rehabilitation of the hick
Notes
23 Conservatism, a source of progress
Notes
24 Prolegomena to positivism. The disappearance of metaphysics
The establishment of religion
25 I’m normal. A normal writer
Notes
26 I have read my whole life long
Notes
27 Soil cutting
Note
28 The lost text
Notes
29 Interview with Frédéric Beigbeder
Notes
30 A remedy for the exhaustion of being
Notes
31 Interview with Marin De Viry and Valérie Toranian
Notes
32 Interview with Agathe Novak-Lechevalier
33 Emmanuel Carrère and the problem of goodness
34 Donald Trump is a good president
35 Conversation with Geoffroy Lejeune. The liturgy
Social organization
Inter-religious dialogue
Hell
Christian art
Science
Political power
Sexuality
Note
36 A bit worse. A response to a few friends
37 The Vincent Lambert affair should not have taken place
Notes
Sources
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MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Translated by Andrew Brown
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The appearance of optical fibres and the industrial agreement on the TCP/IP protocol at the beginning of the 1990s made possible the emergence of networks within and then between companies. The microcomputer, now reduced yet again to being a simple workstation within reliable clientserver systems, lost all its autonomous processing capacity. There was in fact a renormalization of procedures within more mobile, more transversal and more efficient information processing systems.
Microcomputers, though ubiquitous in business, had failed in the domestic market for reasons that have since been clearly analysed (they were still expensive, had little real use, and were difficult to work on when lying down). The late 1990s saw the emergence of the first passive Internet access terminals; in themselves they were devoid of intelligence or memory, so that unit production costs were very low, and they were designed to allow access to the gigantic databases built up by the American entertainment industry. Finally equipped with an at least officially secure electronic payment system, they were attractive and light, and soon established themselves as a standard, replacing both the mobile phone, Minitel and the remote control of conventional television sets.
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