“The most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when people use empirical knowledge against good taste, use strength against power, skill against art, and technology against science in their easiest and unthinking modes. Invariably this means allying them to those same fields in their broader, theoretical modes, in terms of intelligence, tradition, and those questions of taste that are not immediately exhausted by simpleminded notions of good and bad — within the largely unknown fields the second terms constitute.”
– Samuel R. Delany, “On Creativity and Academic Writing” (via thirdity)
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