Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes on Politics
Jean-Francois Lyotard was a 20th-century French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist, one of the leading figures of post-structuralism and a central exponent of postmodernism in philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean-Francois Lyotard on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold.”
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“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 world wide. It is conceivable the nation state will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled over territory, and afterwards for control of access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor. A new field opened for industrial and commercial strategies on the one hand, and political and military strategies.”
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“Legitimation is the process by which a legislator is authorized to promulgate such a law as a norm.”
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge(1977) | p.8 -
“Matter asks no questions, expects no answers of us. It ignores us. It made us the way it makes all bodies—by chance and according to its laws.”
Thought Without a Body?(1994) | p. 289 -
“Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the state through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations .”
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge(1977) | p. 5