APSE-CEU-IVC Talks: Amos Morris-Reich (Tel Aviv University) | The Human-Animal Interface as a Horizon of Interpretation: Vilém Flusser’s “Nazi Fantasy”

APSE-CEU-IVC Talks

The Philosophy Department of the Central European University, the Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna) are jointly organizing a series of talks this term

 

The Human-Animal Interface as a Horizon of Interpretation: Vilém Flusser’s “Nazi Fantasy”

APSE-CEU-IVC Talks
The Philosophy Department of the Central European University, the Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna) are jointly organizing a series of talks this term.

In cooperation with: Israel Studies Center Vienna

Date: 27/10/2022

Time: 15h00

This talk is going to be a hybrid event, in-person at NIG (SR 3A) and can be followed via online Plattform.

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Abstract:

Vilém Flusser is considered one of the most original philosophers of media, communication, and photography in the second half of the twentieth century. Flusser, who was born in Prague to a Czech and German speaking Jewish family and fled to Brazil in 1940, was an autodidact who moved between continents, languages, and literary genres. From his early writings in Brazil to his late writings in Europe one can find scattered, opaque, and strange references to biological themes. Many of these references allude, directly or indirectly, to Nazism. In this wider context, the talk will pay special attention to Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, a fictitious scientific report on a gigantic deep-ocean squid as possibly his most important site of contention with Nazism. In attempting to interpret this book as his “Nazi fantasy,” this lecture reconstructs Flusser’s stunning original voice and attempts to situate him with regard to intellectual traditions about the role of science, and in particular biology, in twentieth century political history.

Location:
NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, SR 3A and ONLINE