Houellebecq's Atomised: Bruno and the Decadence of Modern Man (Video 5)

The sexual revolution is often portrayed as a step on the way to post-privacy, communist revolution-it would be a time for human sex love where love and sex are equated. Certainly Marx and Engels saw it that way. Certainly the Liberationists like Marcuse and Reich thought so. Houellebecq has a different view. The sexual revolution for him is part of the neoliberal economic revolution-the creation of a new oligarchy in technology and industry. The sexual revolution is “simply another stage in the rise of the individual. As the lovely phrase ‘hearth and home’ suggests, the couple and the family were to be the last bastion of primitive communism in a liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy the last unit separating the individual from the market.” (p. 135-36). Conservatives have promoted the market; liberals the sexual revolution. Each were aligned, conservatives unwittingly perhaps and liberals self-consciously, in destroying the mist and fog whereby people could live good lives. What was left? Bruno's life shows the answer to this.

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