This article examines Houellebecq’s two genomics novels, Les Particules élémentaires and La Possibilité d’une île and elaborates their relationship with Neo-Darwinian evolutionary naturalism and neoliberal capitalism. In these works, the mutual interdependence of these two regimes of thought both necessitates and makes possible the technol…[Read more]

This paper conducts an exploration of the post-Darwinian literary and philosophical imaginary through the topos of the island. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical reflections on the nature of geographical islands and their psychic function as fantasies of
transcendence, I argue that the island takes on new significance in a post-Darwinian…[Read more]