The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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Author: 
Jean-François Lyotard
Publication Type: 
Book (monograph)
Language: 
English
Year: 
1984
Publisher: 
University of Minnesota Press
Series: 
Theory and History of Literature
URL: 
The Postmodern Condition (University of Minnesota Press)
ISBN: 
978-0-8166-1173-7
License: 
All Rights reserved
Record Status: 
Incomplete record (stub)
Tags: 
postmodernismepistemologypostmodernitymodernityperformativitytechnologylegitimationlanguage gamesparalogynarrativemetanarrative
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Lamenting the "loss of meaning" in postmodernity boils down to mourning the fact that knowledge is no longer principally narrative.

Technology is therefore a game pertaining not to the true, the just, or the beautiful, etc., but to efficiency: a technical 'move' is 'good' when it does better and/or expends less energy than another.

Data banks are the Encyclopedia of tomorrow. They transcend the capacity of each of their users. They are 'nature' for postmodern man.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define "postmodern" as incredulity towards metanarratives.

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