Network Dynamic Quotes

“The identities that we call intellectual personalities, great thinkers if they are energized by the creative moment of dominant nodes of attention, lesser thinkers or indeed no one of note if they are not so energized, are not fixed. It is precisely because the social structure of intellectual attention is fluidly emergent that we cannot reify individuals, heroizing the agent as if each one were a fixed point of will power and conscious insight who enters the fray but is no more than dusted by it at the edge of one’s psychic skin.”
― Randall Collins