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

. . . 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.
  

We trace our fingers along the dissected rations of phenomena in order to comprehend and define their contours. ... We call this empty husk [these contours] a "concept," and we use it to collect other rations of phenomena that have not been yet fully defined . . . [,] as models. ... [Thus] we can no longer discern any phenomena for which we have not already established a model.