What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
Jean-Francois LyotardIt is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.
Jean-Francois LyotardOne 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.
Jean-Francois LyotardWhat 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 LyotardHe was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siรจcle, 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.
Jean-Francois Lyotard