Jean-François Lyotard citáty
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Jean-François Lyotard
Datum narození:10. srpen 1924
Datum úmrtí:21. duben 1998
Citáty Jean-François Lyotard
„Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.“
— Jean-François Lyotard
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
„Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the 'peace' imposed on their countries by the victors of the Great War. Saddam is such a product in an even more Flagrant and cynical way. Because the Iraqi dictatorship proceeds, as do the others, from the transfer of aporias in the capitalist system to vanquished, less developed, or simply less resistant countries.“
— Jean-François Lyotard
Postmodern Fables
„... The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too
violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.“
— Jean-François Lyotard
Peregrinations Law Form (Wellek Library Lectures
„Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough“
— Jean-François Lyotard
Libidinal Economy
„A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.“
— Jean-François Lyotard
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
