One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the 'peace' imposed on their countries by the victors of the Great War. Saddam is such a product in an even more Flagrant and cynical way. Because the Iraqi dictatorship proceeds, as do the others, from the transfer… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
