Jean-Francois Lyotard famous quotes

03-23-2025

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Kind #Discourse #Scientific Knowledge
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

#Islands #Self #Doe
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siÃ¨cle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Disappointment #Sadness #Past
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Wish #Answers #Contemporary Society
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 goal is exchange
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Order #Goal #Cases
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Decision #Doe #Debt
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

#Decision #Giants #Roles
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Different #Guides #Function
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Class #Decision #Makers
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Discrimination #Capacity #Hypothesis
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Postmodern #Extremes
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 that language assumes a new importance.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Communication #Reality #Hands
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 for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Zero #Mcdonalds #Games

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