{"id":1131,"date":"2009-09-29T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/09\/29\/vampyroteuthis-infernalis\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:42:13","slug":"vampyroteuthis-infernalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/09\/29\/vampyroteuthis-infernalis\/","title":{"rendered":"vampyroteuthis infernalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3CJIKKSUpg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>(Here&#8217;s the reference from the last post&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite scenes from the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth series&#8230; 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<em> umwelt <\/em>of a very strange creature, before that creature &#8220;disappears into the blackness,&#8221; rather like Graham Harman&#8217;s objects disappearing into the density of their tool-being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Here&#8217;s the reference from the last post&#8230;) This is one of my favorite scenes from the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth series&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196,689354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","category-image_nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-if","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1281,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/29\/night-of-the-living-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":1131,"position":0},"title":"night of the living dead","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"An oil spill is a kind of night of the living dead, in which dead organic matter that we have called from its grave rises and strangles the living.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"4642014598_2c94f60962.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2010\/05\/4642014598_2c94f60962.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1039,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/03\/13\/cultural-studies-biosemiotic-turn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1131,"position":1},"title":"cultural studies&#8217; biosemiotic turn?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the impressive recent efforts to bring the physical sciences and the social sciences and humanities back onto \"consilient\" speaking terms (to use E. 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