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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
Jean-Francois Lyotard / Philosopher
Science
Discourse
Kind
Scientific Knowledge
Scientific
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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers
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Class
Decision
Makers
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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
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Decision
Makers
Ruling
Ruling Class
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
Jean-Francois Lyotard / Philosopher
Capacity
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
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Discrimination
Fine
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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
Jean-Francois Lyotard / Philosopher
Extremes
Incredulity
Postmodern
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It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.
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Reality
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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 complex and mobile than ever before.
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Doe
Fabric
Islands
Mobile
Self
Complex
Exists
Island
Relations
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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
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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 / Philosopher
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Cases
Consumed
Order
Both
Exchange
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Sold
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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
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Jean-Francois Lyotard / Philosopher
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Constant
Modern
Postmodern
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Only
Become
State
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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.
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Decision
Flow
Liberalism
Organisation
Payment
Channels
Debts
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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.
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Becoming
Machines
Storage
Decisions
Central
Guarantee
Increasingly
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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 by society and acquired from it
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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 by society and acquired from it.
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Function
Guides
Marxism
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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 to fill a gap in the drawing.
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Photography
Pieces
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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 what is known as the postmodern age.
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Knowledge
Age
Altered
Hypothesis
Postmodern
Cultures
Working
Enter
Societies
Status
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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 choosing how society can answer.
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Inquiry
Choosing
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What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
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Historical
Losing
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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 apply to that society
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Answers
Contemporary Society
Wish
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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 apply to that society.
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Contemporary
Contemporary Society
Representation
Wish
Apply
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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.
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Communication
Becoming
Clear
Importance
Issues
Prominent
Reality
Assumes
Component
Hand
Issue
Whose
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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 that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine
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Decision
Giants
Roles
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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 that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
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Corporate
Labor
Traditional
Composed
Even Now
Heads
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Political Class
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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 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.
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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 for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.
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Zero
Clothes
Games
Mcdonalds
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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.
Jean-Francois Lyotard / Philosopher
War
Differences
Reality
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