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Gothic Biology

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"Everything becomes weird and fantastic." Wilhelm Worringer, Form in Gothic




This title must seem strange to most readers. Some might even want to sneak the conjunctive “and” between “gothic” and “biology”, making it an additive instead of descriptive relationship. But I mean what I wrote. The science of biology is a (neo)gothic form of knowledge. Now we need to ask, what does this mean and why is it important?