He 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 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 LyotardLiberalism 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 LyotardEclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.
Jean-Francois LyotardOne can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine
Jean-Francois Lyotard