Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In Delany’s mosaic essay “Shadows” (written 1973-1974), section 36 (“Omitted pages from an s-f novel”) includes this bit of dialogue: 1/7 110
Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“[…] my explanation would have been nonsense two hundred years ago. It isn’t today. The episteme has changed so entirely, so completely, the words bear entirely different charges, even though the meanings are more or less what they would have been […]” 2/7 110
