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A review by ladybrewsalot
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique Paranaturaliste by Louis Bec, Vilém Flusser
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Best line: “ if only we could grasp the world with a penis”. And a great comparison of vampyroteuthic culture to human culture.
The glorification of art, artificial reality and other seductive measures should have no place in the encroaching future to celebrate such things would be to ennoble, the vampyroteuthis. And yet as animals that have prevailed over our animality-or at least presume to have done so-we are compelled, like the vampyroteuthis, to pursue immortality in the minds of others. We are obliged, that is, to create art, and it is on a count of this obligation that the vampyroteuthis wells within us. We are becoming increasingly vampyroteuthic.
In this light, we should be somewhat wary of those who condemn surfaces in their pursuit of the depths.
To glimpse both sides of this emergence simultaneously it would be to behold one’s opposite, an image of the self, as reflected between two facing mirrors. Those who enjoy this perspective, it is helped, I’ve read this fable. Is itnot the intention of every fable , after all, to hold one mirror up to another?
The glorification of art, artificial reality and other seductive measures should have no place in the encroaching future to celebrate such things would be to ennoble, the vampyroteuthis. And yet as animals that have prevailed over our animality-or at least presume to have done so-we are compelled, like the vampyroteuthis, to pursue immortality in the minds of others. We are obliged, that is, to create art, and it is on a count of this obligation that the vampyroteuthis wells within us. We are becoming increasingly vampyroteuthic.
In this light, we should be somewhat wary of those who condemn surfaces in their pursuit of the depths.
To glimpse both sides of this emergence simultaneously it would be to behold one’s opposite, an image of the self, as reflected between two facing mirrors. Those who enjoy this perspective, it is helped, I’ve read this fable. Is itnot the intention of every fable , after all, to hold one mirror up to another?