Quotes by : Jean-François Lyotard

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for....

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists,....

...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted....

... Desire baffles knowledge and power.

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more....

Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control,....

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing....

Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Learning....