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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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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter…

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“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…

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And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means…

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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced…

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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…

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A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more…

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with…

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

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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

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

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

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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…

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