Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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.

Doe

Islands

Self

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.

Clothes

Mcdonalds

Zero

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.

Disappointment

Past

Sadness

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

Answers

Contemporary Society

Wish

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

Allusion

Reality

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

Cases

Goal

Order

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

Debt

Decision

Doe

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.

Communication

Issues

Reality

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

Decision

Giants

Roles

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.

Drawing

Photography

Pieces

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Allusion

Answers

Capacity

Cases

Class

Clothes

Communication

Contemporary Society

Debt

Decision

Differences

Different

Disappointment

Discourse

Discrimination

Doe

Drawing

Extremes

Function

Giants

Goal

Guides

Hypothesis

Incredulity

Islands

Issues

Kind

Makers

Mcdonalds

Order

Past

Photography

Pieces

Postmodern

Reality

Roles

Sadness

Scientific Knowledge

Self

War

Wish

Zero

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Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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.

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.

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

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

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

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

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.

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

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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