(Here’s the reference from the last post…)
This is one of my favorite scenes from the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth series… The music is toned down, soft and sparse and a little eerie, some of the cinematic apparatus (at least the lights of the submersible) is displayed on camera, and we get a hint of the umwelt of a very strange creature, before that creature “disappears into the blackness,” rather like Graham Harman’s objects disappearing into the density of their tool-being…
My son did a science project on the vampire squid for school last year (4th grade). We had fun researching this little beastie about which relatively little is known.
Perhaps no better metaphor for why “Being” and “Nothingness” (the extreme outline of the Ideal object), ever forgets the sea.
David Attenborough is a national treasure!