heptagrammaton’s Reviews > Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, Vol. 23 > Status Update

... [Biology's] importance is also unmatched because it provides us with an almost mythical model of life's unrealized possibilities.

. . . By attempting to liberate it from its pressure, we will be crushed. It is impossible to indoctrinate the vampyroteuthis without also being indoctrinated by it. The result of such reciprocal indoctrination will not be a spherical being with eight arms and two faces—as Plato proposed—but rather a self-mutilating hybrid, a cybernetic Nazism.

All objects are stubborn; being inert, they resist our attempts to "(in)form" them.

... It is not the case that we first experience or think something and, subsequently, scour the vicinity for an object with which to record it. Rather, it is already as sculptors, filmmakers, authors—as artist—that we begin to experience and think. Material, lifeless objects (stones, bones, letters, numbers, musical notes) shape all of human experience and thought.

Memory, the central problem of historical evolution, is also the central problem of art, which is essentially a method of fabricating artificial memories.

. . . [F]reedom exists where biological rules . . . have not fully encroached upon life. Freedom is a provisional stage in the tendency of evolution towards socialization and death.

To speak of politics is to speak of freedom.

  

    . . . Human history is a history of affliction.