Music written, recorded and produced by
flow-b
Autumn 2025 at Dysnomia

Words written and performed by Ursula K. Le Guin
20141119 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards

This speech has been cited by many Utopian Anarchist thinkers and artists for it's comprehensive and passionate assault on the publishing industry's destruction of the art world by numbers. I sampled it here without any sort of license from the author or her estate. I accept full and personal responsibility for any issues people may take with the contextualization here. Ursula was likely not expecting random artists to sample and edit her words. I hope that she would be able to look past any grievous errors I may have made and recognize my enduring love for her work, her ideas and her legacy. While I abridged her speech to suit the arc of my composition, the entire speech ought to be considered required listening/reading for all persons who identify as artists in the 21st century.

The complete speech is available here: Ursula K. Le Guin: Selected Awards and Honors

Mastered by Ordos Mk.0

License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

the reward by Florian Mosleh is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0