ARTICOLI / 12 / René Capovin /
They are against multiculturalism, human rights, and feminism. They are charged with apocalyptic attitude. They wrote about the map-territory relation, cloning, orgy, and death. In fact, even if it sounds strange, perhaps disturbing, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Houellebecq share a lot of things. Obviously, their works also show several, strong differences. Still, the total absence of reflection on the links between these major contemporary figures justifies the operation carried out in this article, i.e. to show only similarities and continuities ‘from within’, through a cutting whose rough materials are the works of both authors.
