“Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” By Jean-François Lyotard‚ trans. Régis Durand. NOTE: Written in 1982‚ as postscript to The Postmodern Condition (1979) A Demand This is a “period of slackening” in the “color of the times”. “From every direction we are being urged to put an end to experimentation‚ in the arts and elsewhere”. Bauhaus (1919-1933 Germany: Walter Gropius founded this movement of artists‚ writers‚ architects. Shut down by Hitler for being very radical‚ left-wing)
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– might somehow precipitate an as-yet unimaginable transformation‚ if not actually an end‚ of capitalism. Thus‚ by the time Lyotard comes to re-read Marx through the lens of libidinal economy after the failure of the socialist revolutionary desire called ‘May 1968’‚ libidinal spending of the not-for-profit or wasteful variety has been thoroughly rehabilitated in what Lyotard calls ‘the world of capital as the Milieu of universal prostitution’. 79 The figure of the prostitute as compulsive spender
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our beliefs. Two thinkers who focus on this issue are Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Foucault; this essay will analyze how efficiency is a crucial element in their philosophies. Lyotard’s initial conception of efficiency is as one of many language-games. Lyotard borrows from Wittgenstein by formulating that various linguistic utterances are governed by a set of rules determining their use‚ much like a game of chess (Lyotard 10). Within
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these narratives. (Lyotard 355) In this article‚ Lyotard examines the nature of the discourse/narrative which legitimates these truth claims‚ arguing that metanarratives are used for the truth claims‚ and that these grand metanarratives are inevitably false. He urges us to find truth in mini-narratives‚ “which are provisional‚ contingent‚ temporary‚ and relative and which provide a basis for the actions of specific groups in particular local circumstances.” (Barry 83) Lyotard seeks to privilege the
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DR2004 Postmodern Drama Dr. Gabriella Calchi-Novati Michaelmas Term 2012 Postmodernism Title: The consequences and manifestation of Postmodern theory on the Visual and Performing Arts‚ with particular reference to the theories of Jean-François Lyotard‚ Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson. Postmodernism is the “state‚ condition‚ or period subsequent to that which is modern” and within art it manifests itself as any of the “styles‚ concepts or points of view involving a conscious departure
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in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally do; it requires us to heighten our senses beyond comprehension. The dynamic sublime is the way in which rationalizes things and his perceptions. Lyotard describes the boundlessness
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postmodern condition was Jean Francois Lyotard. As Jean-François Lyotard explains in his book ‘The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge’ (1984) he is concerned with ‘the condition of knowledge in highly developed societies’ (Lyotard‚ 1979). For the purpose of discussions regarding Lyotard‚ it is prudent to note that the use of the term "postmodernism" is not to be understood as a historical era following the modern period. In ‘The Postmodern Condition’ Lyotard insists that the postmodern occurs
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Notes on Lyotard ’Jean-François Lyotard‚ Ph.D.‚ (b. 1924 in Versailles) became one of the world’s foremost philosophers‚ noted for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. A key figure in contemporary French philosophy‚ his interdisciplinary discourse covers a wide variety of topics including knowledge and communication; the human body; modernist and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation
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postmodernism refers to a breakdown of the distinction between culture and society - emergence of a social order in which the importance and power of the mass media and popular culture means that they govern and shape all forms of social relationships. For Lyotard‚ a key post-modernism theorist‚ the post-modern condition is neither a periodizing concept nor does it refer to the institutional parameters of modernity and post-modernity. Rather it is: “…the condition of knowledge in the most highly developed
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