Jean-François Lyotard Quotes
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day,...
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Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Lea...
Show More... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scie...
Show MoreA new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of pr...
Show MoreKnowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be val...
Show MoreWhat is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise co...
Show More...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Co...
Show MoreAre we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, mo...
Show More... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer th...
Show More... Desire baffles knowledge and power.
…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking fo...
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