Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste

Name: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste
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ISBN: 9780816678228

ISBN-10: 0816678227

ISBN-13: 9780816678228

Edition: 2012

Authors: Vilï¿½m Flusser, Louis Bec, Valentine A. Pakis, Vilï¿½m Flusser

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How far apart are humans from animals—even the “vampire squid from hell”? Playing the scientist/philosopher/provocateur, Vilém Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a philosophical ocean. “The abyss that separates us” from the vampire squid (or vampire octopus, perhaps, sinceVampyroteuthis infernalisinhabits its own phylogenetic order somewhere between the two) “is incomparably smaller than that which separates us from extraterrestrial life, as imagined in science fiction and sought by astrobiologists,” Flusser notes at the outset of the expedition.Part scientific treatise, part spoof, part philosophical discourse, part fable,Vampyroteuthis Infernalisgives…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



The Treatise



Octopoda



Genealogy


The Phylum Mollusca


The Class Cephalopoda


The Species Vampyroteuthis infernalis giovanni



The Vampyroteuthic World


Its Model


The Abyss


Vampyroteuthic Dasein



Vampyroteuthic Culture


Its Thinking


Its Social Life


Its Art



Its Emergence


Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste