“The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.” WarEnoughWholeRealityDesireGivenDifferencesAnswersFantasyCenturyReturnDemandConceptsPaidTerrorNostalgiaRealizationWitnessSensibleReconciliationTransparentTwentieth CenturyTotalityActivateAppeasementMuttering Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard
