The Postmodern Condition: a report on Knowledge
Jean-Francois Lyotard
U. Minn., 1984
001 L991p
"Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world." -publisher
excerpt:
"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchanged. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its "use-value."* (p.4-5)