Are we heading for a new form of universal language ,devoid of ...
Jean-François Lyotard analyses the end of metanarratives in the postmodern culture. “The narrative function is losing its great hero, its great dangers, its great voyages, and its great goal”. According to Lyotard, they were stopped, ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 10:33AM EST
Brotherwise Interviews & Exclusives: POSTMODERN ICONOCLASTIC FRAGMENTS
As far as the question of desire was concerned, I already had some marked disagreements with Jean-Francois Lyotard, and even with Gilles Deleuze . . . while entirely admiring their 'machine', which was very desirable, but from my point ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:57AM EST
Mannerisms of Foxes: The Differend: Phrases in Dispute
Lyotard, Jean-François. The Differend: Phrases in Dispute. Trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988. At the onset of Lyotard's book, he defines the differend as a “conflict, between (at least) ...
Posted 03/07/2010 at 07:03PM EST
Mannerisms of Foxes: Just Gaming
Lyotard, Jean-François and Jean-Loup Thébaud. Just Gaming. Trans. Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Lyotard and Thébaud structure their collaborative work as a Platonic dialogue with the former ...
Posted 03/07/2010 at 07:01PM EST
Years Refusal | Music And Everything To Do With Music
... Bobbie Ann Mason (In Country), and Don DeLillo (White Noise), connecting these novelists' ideas to those of such cultural theoirsts as Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, among others. ...
Posted 03/07/2010 at 03:06PM EST
Integral Options Cafe: Postmodern Man - The second generation is here
It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Rumors of the death of Modernism had ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 02:19PM EST
This is Not a Blog: Libidinal Economy by Jean-Francois Lyotard ...
Libidinal Economy by Jean-Francois Lyotard... yet another genius quarantined in academia. Fascinating, but definitely not known for clarity, or 'verifiable' notions of truth. Truth results from imagination, expressivity, and there is a ...
Posted 03/03/2010 at 01:03AM EST
... Salvador Dali and S.J. Perelman (1904); Albert Camus and Walt Kelly (1913); William S. Burroughs and Daniel J. Boorstin (1914); Norman Mailer and Roy Lichtenstein (1923); Jean-François Lyotard, Terry Southern, Paul Fussell (1924); ...
Posted 03/02/2010 at 10:05PM EST
... Salvador Dali and S.J. Perelman (1904); Albert Camus and Walt Kelly (1913); William S. Burroughs and Daniel J. Boorstin (1914); Norman Mailer and Roy Lichtenstein (1923); Jean-François Lyotard, Terry Southern, Paul Fussell (1924); ...
Posted 03/02/2010 at 10:05PM EST
A Canto A Day: MCT: Lyotard and de Man
I'm back with MCT after a break, and the first essay, by Jean-François Lyotard is "Answering the question: what is postmodernism". The simplest answer to the question is that it is the means by which modernism supersedes itself. ...
Posted 03/02/2010 at 02:14PM EST
a writer's notes » Freedom part three
We were entering the peaceful, postmodern Promised Land, where great heroes, great dangers, great peoples, and great goals would all disappear, as Jean-François Lyotard, author of The Postmodern Condition, notoriously argued. ...
Posted 03/01/2010 at 11:09PM EST
Sinéad Dunn Ceramics: new black stoneware - prebisque.
currents. Lessons on the analytic of the sublime - Jean Francois Lyotard. Currently listening to Woods - Songs of Shame. links. bitossi ceramic review ceramics biennial covepark crafts council hand/eye holm studio ...
Posted 03/01/2010 at 09:40PM EST
Sinéad Dunn Ceramics: gestures of resistance
currents. Lessons on the analytic of the sublime - Jean Francois Lyotard. Currently listening to Woods - Songs of Shame. links. bitossi ceramic review ceramics biennial covepark crafts council hand/eye holm studio ...
Posted 03/01/2010 at 09:36PM EST
ventures of jenn.: postmodern theory and fashion
Jean Francois Lyotard: Lyotard's views mainly deal with the nature of the post-modern period. So if we say that to talk about post modernism is to talk about our present day society, Lyotard says that today we tend to question ...
Posted 03/01/2010 at 08:05AM EST
Jean Francois Lyotard: Lyotard's views mainly deal with the nature of the post-modern period. So if we say that to talk about post modernism is to talk about our present day society, Lyotard says that today we tend to question ...
Posted 03/01/2010 at 08:05AM EST
The Art of John Bittinger Klomp: Conclusion: The Change from ...
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. “What is Postmodernism.” reprinted as an appendix to the English edition of Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 71-82. Harrison and Wood, 1008-1017. Schaffner, Ingrid and Matthias Winzen (eds.). ...
Posted 02/28/2010 at 03:58PM EST
exceeding great delight — Brother Lawrence « Sumnonrabidus's Blog
... by Alain Robbe-Grillet; Emotion and Meaning in Music, by Leonard B. Meyer; Music and Imagination, by Aaron Copland; Skin, by Dorothy Allison; Just Gaming, by Jean-François Lyotard; and The Rhetoric of Irony, by Wayne C. Booth. ...
Posted 02/28/2010 at 02:11PM EST
The French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, one of the main postmodern thinkers, adapted French post-structuralist thinking to the exhibition space by relating theoretical texts and audio-recordings, technological inventions, ...
Posted 02/27/2010 at 11:32PM EST
Bouphonia: The Capacity for Truth
The only way I could see her being wrong is if there turned out to be evidence that a suspected murderer had acted oddly, or falsely implicated an innocent bystander, prior to the publication, in 1979, of Jean-François Lyotard's The ...
Posted 02/25/2010 at 10:06PM EST
Intelligent Design: Arm Wrestling with Darwin | Blog Of Sport
In describing postmodernism, Richard Rorty says, “truth is made rather than found,” and Jean-Francois Lyotard emphasizes the importance of avoiding totalizing grand narratives and maintaining an infinite number of perspectives. ...
Posted 02/25/2010 at 12:31PM EST
The Lone Voice: The Prime Monster in action.
Jean-François Lyotard, 1924-1998. The Ranting Penguin Last Line Of Defence? - James Fraser Brown (aged 4) has toddled to his father's defence, furious that daddy has been accused of being a bully. "I know I said I'd never stoop so l. ...
Posted 02/24/2010 at 12:28AM EST
ScreenHunter_01 Feb. 23 09.53 It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. ...
Posted 02/23/2010 at 08:57AM EST
ScreenHunter_01 Feb. 23 09.53 It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. ...
Posted 02/23/2010 at 08:57AM EST
The Smart Set: Postmodern Man - February 19, 2010
It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Rumors of the death of Modernism had ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 11:22PM EST
We were forced to read Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jean Francois Lyotard, Michael Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Umberto Eco, and others. Not merely read, but understand and apply applicable theories to texts and write essays. ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 01:37PM EST
We were forced to read Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jean Francois Lyotard, Michael Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Umberto Eco, and others. Not merely read, but understand and apply applicable theories to texts and write essays. ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 01:37PM EST
Open Letter to Bracha Ettinger « Joseph Gelfer
I like that fact that your Flickr photos show you hanging out with groovy people like Jean-Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas and a bunch of other people I've mostly never heard of, but who are no doubt very interesting ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 07:31AM EST
Open Letter to Bracha Ettinger « Joseph Gelfer
I like that fact that your Flickr photos show you hanging out with groovy people like Jean-Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas and a bunch of other people I've mostly never heard of, but who are no doubt very interesting ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 07:31AM EST
Why we need to use both sides of our brain
McGilchrist reflects the views of postmodern philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard who argued that the present age clearly shows fragmentation and increasing relativity regarding beliefs and values. Our postmodern society has witnessed the ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 01:54AM EST
Why we need to use both sides of our brain - FP Posted
McGilchrist reflects the views of postmodern philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard who argued that the present age clearly shows fragmentation and increasing relativity regarding beliefs and values. Our postmodern society has witnessed the ...
Posted 02/22/2010 at 01:54AM EST
Lyotard on Vitalism « PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR
... why not weep, and your crying would be that fragment, since nothing is lost, and even the harshest deception can in turn give rise to several effects.” - Jean-Francois Lyotard, Libidinal Economy (1974). By: Scu on February 21, 2010 ...
Posted 02/21/2010 at 09:46PM EST