Quotes by Lyotard, Jean Francois

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one li >>

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism >>

Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to p >>

Quotations about Information

Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on yo >>

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. >>

The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the infor >>

Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major --perhaps the major --stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.

Lyotard, Jean Francois