Modernism Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

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“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into…

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