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Index
Abandonment by parents 6, 18, 31, 50, 52, 67, 69, 70, 72
Abjection, 24, 31, 33, 34, 42, 54, 56
Adult-child 68, 69, 70
Agamben, Giorgio 17, 129, 137, 138
Age of Aquarius 50
See also Sixties
Aging 60, 68, 74, 82, 126, 157
Apocalypse 83, 84, 85, 95, 120
Art market 97, 101, 111, 113, 115
Art 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29, 32, 36, 43, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 12, 113, 114, 115, 116, 134, 146, 152
Atwood, Margaret 19, 73, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 90, 95
Author’s avatar 109
Autobiographical topos, 18, 45, 50, 51, 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 66, 67, 76
Balzac, Honoré de 23, 24, 32, 33, 45, 46, 53, 128
Barthes, Roland 15, 34, 163
Baudrillard, Jean 9, 27, 42, 90, 98, 137
Bauman, Zygmunt 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 58, 65, 66, 88, 90, 123
Best sellers 144, 145
Biblical texts 124
See also Book of Daniel
Book of Daniel 84, 124
Borges, Jorge Luis 9, 10, 11, 12, 14
Bourdieu, Pierre 19, 100, 101
Brave New World 31, 74, 76, 85, 97, 165, 167
Camus, Albert 13, 30, 34, 122
Canonical and non-canonical 144, 145, 146, 152
Capitalism 36, 54, 175
Celebrity 99, 101, 108, 110, 132
César Birotteau 45, 46
Children 115, 179
Christianity 4, 20, 84, 123, 124, 129, 137
Christmas 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 128
Christie, Agatha 44
Cloning 128, 176, 179
Comédie Humaine 33
Commercial Market 8, 17, 19, 25, 26, 29, 38, 46, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 71, 92, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 122, 132, 146, 147, 148, 149, 158
See also Commodities
Commodities 17, 25, 26, 97, 98, 100, 101, 105, 147, 148
Community 48, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 89, 91, 93, 121, 122, 124, 139
Competition 53, 100
Conceptual novel 29
See also Roman à thèse
Confessional genre 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 42, 47, 99, 137
Consumerism 14, 19, 22, 27, 28, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 58, 65, 81, 90, 98, 104, 128, 130, 132, 134, 135, 136, 139, 144, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 163
Contemporary art 16, 19, 36, 99, 101, 102, 105, 107, 111, 115
Couplehood 48, 49, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 103, 105
Crime Fiction 118, 120, 174, 175
Crisis of individualism 153, 92
Crisis of meaning 21, 28, 33, 84, 135, 148, 149, 151, 152
Death/Dying 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 27, 59, 68, 69, 70, 77, 80, 88, 99, 106, 107, 108, 125, 138, 155, 157
Decline of emotion 33, 46, 47, 48, 58, 59, 60, 62
Disappearance of childhood 18, 68
Disintegration of society 5, 76, 80, 83
Dogma 122, 123, 137
Dystopia 19, 74, 75, 76, 78, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 94, 124, 157
Ekphrasis 15, 112, 114, 157
Elemetarteilchen (film) 16, 47
Elohimite church 20, 71, 84, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
Engaged art 15, 16, 17, 114
Escapist literature 151
Eternal life 20, 86, 119, 123, 127, 132, 135, 139
Euthanasia 6, 7, 157
see also Suicide
Extension du domaine de la lutte (film) 16, 153
Extreme contemporary 4, 6, 24
Family 3, 4, 5, 7, 18, 21, 45, 46, 49, 51, 52, 53, 66, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 99
Field of cultural production 98, 100, 113, 116
Fin de millénaire 17, 23, 27, 75, 88, 92, 97, 109
Free market and choice 54
Free sex 57
Futuristic novels 19, 73, 76, 85, 87, 90, 91
Gaze 45, 54, 56, 97, 99, 101, 104, 106, 107, 111, 114, 134, 146
Gem 108
Gnositisicm 20, 119, 120, 122, 123
Grisham, John 152, 153
Grooms, Red 113
Gulliver’s Travels 86
Guru 57, 133, 135
H. P. Lovecraft: Contre le Monde, Contre la Vie 16
Hamartia 55
Hands on Breast 103,105
High art 98, 100, 102, 146
Hirst, Damien 1, 2, 6, 7, 19, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 116
Hollywood (Jean Harlow) 105
Humanism 33, 92, 133, 143
Hutcheon, Linda 144, 152, 153, 163
Huxley, Aldous 74, 75, 76, 86, 157, 158
Hyperreal 9, 22, 54, 109, 134, 135
Identity 5, 23, 41, 56, 110, 130, 150, 163
Idolatry 134, 135, 139, 180
Illouz, Eva 45, 46, 47, 49, 51, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62
Instrumentalization 36, 146, 163
Interventions I 16, 21
Interventions II 16, 21, 36, 70, 121, 122, 127
Intervention art 21, 43, 114
Judeo-Christian values 12
Koons, Jeff 1, 2, 6, 7, 19, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 114, 116
Kippfigur poetics 34
La Possibilité d’une Ile (film) 16, 85, 88, 89, 125
La Poursuite du Bonheur 22
Language 116, 159
Lanzarote 4, 10, 16, 49, 52, 71, 85, 102, 119, 121, 126, 132, 135,
160
Lifestyle 36, 40, 64, 80, 86, 110, 127
Logic of late capitalism 34, 41, 106, 130, 131
Love 22, 49, 46, 47, 49, 50, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 73, 100, 168, 169, 175
Made in Heaven 103, 104, 105
Manet, Edouard 101, 104, 105
Market logic 26, 149
Marriage 45, 46, 48, 57, 60, 125
Mother and Child Divided 106
Murder 4, 6, 34, 52, 109, 110, 111, 115, 116
Nana 104
Narrator 4, 8, 13, 18, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 52, 77, 85, 112, 114, 121, 126, 127, 132, 134, 142, 144
Nausea 4
Nausea 13
Negative capability 27
Neohumans 36, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 89, 80, 81, 82, 85, 88, 90, 120, 124, 139, 157, 168, 159, 160
Neppy, Enzo 18
New Age 128, 137
Nihilistic politics 17, 26, 109
Nietzsche, Friedrich 13, 25, 122, 162
Obscene 105, 182
Old age 7, 55, 69, 70, 75, 91, 92, 128
On Exactitude in Science 9
On the use and abuse of history in life 13
Oryx and Crake 27, 83, 82, 86, 88, 89, 90, 98, 95, 96, 165, 170, 175, 176
Over-identification 112
Paganism/ Ancient Greek religion 131, 132, 133
Parable of the map
See On Exactide in Science
Parental desertion
See Abandonment by parents
Parenthood 48, 49, 71, 72
Parody 19, 110, 123, 138, 152, 153
Passive-Activism 1, 25, 30, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 40, 46, 71, 78, 116, 143
Pedophilia 70, 71, 72, 89, 97, 135
Platform 4, 5, 10, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 43, 52, 53, 59, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 70, 87, 109, 112, 120, 123, 141, 142, 144, 150, 154, 160
Poetic style 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 18, 31, 94, 111, 122
Police procedural 115, 116
Poncif 22
Pornography 1, 25, 103, 146, 161, 172
Posthumanism 18, 19, 76, 148, 150, 151, 154, 157, 158, 159, 161, 163
Postman, Neil 68, 69
Postmodernism 9, 12, 17, 22, 26, 27, 28, 33, 42, 76, 84, 87, 94, 110, 119, 130, 131, 133, 134, 137, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152
Prophet 67, 91, 92, 124, 125, 126, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 139
Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World 16, 120
Quests 19, 73, 78, 79, 82, 83, 89, 93, 94
Raëlian cult 52, 71, 126, 127, 132
Realistic novel 38, 41, 76, 77, 146, 150, 151, 153, 154, 162
Relationships 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 17, 46, 47, 48, 49, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 80, 89, 90, 98, 105, 114, 126, 144, 154, 158
Relativism 130, 131
Religion 20, 29. 32, 36, 84, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139
Representation 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 33, 34, 50, 76, 87, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 112, 114, 116, 124, 125, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 152, 153, 154, 156, 161, 162
Reproduction 9, 11, 12, 14, 75, 153
Responsibility 18, 21, 38, 42, 49, 52, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 72, 105, 122
Rester vivant et Autres Testes 16, 69, 123, 149, 155
Roman à thèse 13, 29, 34, 41, 98
Routes of reading 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 75
Sartre, Jean-Paul 13, 15, 51, 122
Science fiction 24, 73, 76, 77
Science and technology 5, 10, 12, 14, 19, 22, 26, 29, 35, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 81, 86, 106, 108, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127, 130, 132, 135, 136, 139, 148, 150, 157, 160
Scientology 133
Secular ethics 122
Sexual fantasies 141, 142, 147, 151, 158
Sexual permissiveness 5, 55, 123
Sexual revolution 53, 57, 85, 163
Shamir, Eilon 131, 132, 136
Simulacra 9, 90, 135, 149, 150, 161
Sin 85, 107, 138, 159
Sixties 53, 57, 85, 86, 159
Spectacle 106, 107, 113, 129, 135, 151, 160
Speculative fiction 73
Subjectivity 64, 98, 137, 138, 150, 153, 154, 155, 157, 159
Suicide 6, 50, 52, 68, 79, 89, 114, 120, 134
Swift, Jonathan 86, 142
Taub, Gadi 46, 57, 58, 90
The Elementary Particles 6, 8, 10, 16, 19, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84, 87, 89, 90, 95, 109, 120, 121, 122, 139, 143, 157, 158
The Map and the Territory 1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 52, 88, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 141
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 106
The Possibility of an Island 5, 6, 10, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 49, 60, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 112, 113, 114, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 147, 157, 159, 160, 161, 162
La Possibilité d’une Ile (film) 16, 85, 88, 89, 125
The Stranger 13
Theology 20, 119
Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank 108
Tourist Guides 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
Utopia 38, 45, 46, 47, 62, 63, 74, 75, 76, 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 159
Violence 6, 7, 8, 14, 36, 40, 99, 114, 116
Voyeurism 19, 31, 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 116, 117
Warming up 2, 5, 6, 7
Western society 7, 24, 27, 30, 22, 47, 77, 74, 98, 100, 130, 139, 153
Whatever 4, 8, 11, 13, 16, 20, 21, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 61, 67, 85, 119, 120, 122, 144, 148, 149, 154, 155, 156
Youth loss and preservation 4, 55, 135, 157, 158
Žižek, Slavoj 112, 137, 151
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