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The strangeness of this book is an effect of his use of paratext, of focalization, and narrative voices, and, of Louis Bec's anatomical sketches of a fictional squid which are evocative of drawings garnered from a dissection. Strictly, the vampire squid from hell is a genus distinct from octopuses and squids and "like homo sapiens, it is the only species within its genus" (Dickey). FLUSSER STUDIES 30 1 Ruth Y. Hsu Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: Homo Sapiens' Posthuman Future? 4 In this paper, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis refers to Flusser's book; vampyroteuthis infernalis or vampire squid or vampire squid from hell refers to the animal. [Extracted from the article] |
