Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
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
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
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…
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. - Jean-Francois Lyotard
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
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
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.
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
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological rep…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination - Jean-Francois Lyotard
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
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