He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right throu…

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cu…

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological rep…

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the go…

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear t…

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole a…

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

- Jean-Francois Lyotard