Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes

French - Philosopher | August 10, 1924 - April 21, 1998

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

KnowledgeScienceKindDiscourse

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.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

LosingNewOldHistoricalTraditions

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.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

AgeKnowledgeCulturesStatusOur

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

SelfNowIslandMoreComplexFabric

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

DecisionWillClassContinueRuling

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

KnowledgeGoalNewWillProduction

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

WorkEndBecomeFirstModernOnly

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.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

DecisionsInformationWillRight

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

GoodDecisionMoneyFlowChannels

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

ScienceDiscriminationWorkingFine

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

KnowledgeSocietyWishQuestionMust

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

KnowledgeSocietyFunctionDifferent

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