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“Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough” DeathDesireKnowledgeCapitalismIntensityNihilismProductionExchangeLibidinal EconomyIntensities Book:Libidinal Economy Source: Libidinal Economy
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?” PhilosophyPostmodernism Author:Jean-François Lyotard
“... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.” ScienceReligionRespectReverence Book:Driftworks Source: Driftworks
“Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.” TruthScienceKnowledgeThoughtPostmodernismScientismNarrativesLanguage GameMetanarratives Book:The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
“In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.” HorrorHuman RightsFree SpeechSublimeDissentCancel CultureSilencing Author:Jean-François Lyotard
“My professor, he reminded us of Kant: to think by oneself, to think in accordance with oneself. Today they say that's logocentric, not politically correct. Streams must flow in the right direction so that they may converge. Why all this cultural bustling? Just to assure oneself that everyone is speaking of the same thing. Of what? Of Otherness.” SpecialPolitical CorrectnessUnanimityUniqueness Of Individuals Book:Postmodern Fables Source: Postmodern Fables