Being alive means being susceptible to viruses and so on. And far more generally, viruses, patterns, appearance, flowers,…

“Being alive means being susceptible to viruses and so on. And far more generally, viruses, patterns, appearance, flowers, art-these are all far from useless, they are intrinsic parts of being a thing at all. Causality itself is something to do with magical seduction. How that amounts to “tyranny” just beats me. To me, reality is literally an anarchy. Artists just aren’t tyrants. They can’t be.”

–Timothy Morton, taken from Bjork’s letters with Timothy Morton (vianataliekane)