HYPERBOLIC FICTION: SOME REMARKS ON VILÉM FLUSSER'S METHOD OF PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION

Abstract

This article aims to understand the way Flusser resorts to fiction as a method of philosophical investigation. For the author, fiction is not only used as an imaginary laboratory of experimentations, which sometimes support the parallax of phenomena, but also as an important rhetorical resource that, throu­gh hyperbolic fiction, “reveals” transformations, sometimes imperceptible, that begin to emerge on the horizon of postindustrial societies. We also focus on the Vampyroteuthis Infernalis fable, to analyze the meanderings of Flusser's philosophical-fictional production, as well as introduce themes related to the transformations generated by the post-historical form of existence.