Manchester University Press, 1984. But the social foundation of the principle of division, or class struggle, was blurred to the point of losing all of its radicality; we cannot conceal the fact that the critical model in the end lost its theoretical standing and was reduced to the status of a “utopia” or “hope,” a token protest raised in the name of man or reason or creativity, or again of some social category such as the Third World or the students – on which is conferred in extremes the henceforth improbable function of critical subject. In many circles, Lyotard is celebrated as the postmodern theorist par excellence. Our hypotheses, therefore, should not be accorded predictive value in relation to reality, but strategic value in relation to the question raised. This is the function of the principle of class struggle in theories of society based on the work of Marx. Finally, and closely related to this last, The Postmodern Condition presents us with significant methodological operations, which, although they draw on a whole very rich contem­ Access to data is, and will continue to be, the prerogative of experts of all stripes. These technological transformations can be expected to have a considerable impact on knowledge. Jean Baudrillard, ‘The Precession of Simulacra’, in Storey (Reader), p. 409-415. Lyotard began his intellectual development through a positive engagement with Marxism, On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. But this aspect of the problem should not be allowed to overshadow the other, which is complementary to it. Chapters 9 and 10 Pages 31-41. Jean-Francois Lyotard’s material has been highly influential in the development of postmodern thought. A denotative utterance such as “The university is sick,” made in the context of a conversation or an interview, positions its sender (the person who utters the statement), its addressee (the person who receives it), and its referent (what the statement deals with) in a specific way: the utterance places (and exposes) the sender in the position of “knower” (he knows what the situation is with the university), the addressee is put in the position of having to give or refuse his assent, and the referent itself is handled in a way unique to denotatives, as something that demands to be correctly identified and expressed by the statement that refers to it. Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. On the whole, Lyotard’s talk of ‘postmodern science’ is severely misconstrued at best, and profoundly mistaken at worst (Sokal and Bricmont, 1998, pp. I find this partition solution unacceptable. An excerpt from Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: "What, then, is the postmodern? Lyotard's General Arguments. The war is not without rules, but the rules allow and encourage the greatest possible flexibility of utterance. Actually, we could say it the other way around: the sender is dean or rector that is, he is invested with the authority to make this kind of statement – only insofar as he can directly affect both the referent, (the university) and the addressee (the university staff) in the manner I have indicated. Or more simply still, the question of the social bond, insofar as it is a question, is itself a language game, the game of inquiry. Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. The notion that learning falls within the purview of the State, as the brain or mind of society, will become more and more outdated with the increasing strength of the opposing principle, according to which society exists and progresses only if the messages circulating within it are rich in information and easy to decode. There is insufficient space here to chart the vicissitudes of these struggles, which fill more than a century of social, political, and ideological history. Jean-Francois Lyotard Postmodern Condition The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge I have read an art critic who packages and sells Transavantgardism’ in the marketplace of painting. The State? As for the second function, it is common knowledge that the miniaturisation and commercialisation of machines is already changing the way in which learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited. Of course, the meaning of the utterance has to be understood, but that is a general condition of communication and does not aid us in distinguishing the different kinds of utterances or their specific effects. This idea of an agonistics of language should not make us lose sight of the second principle, which stands as a complement to it and governs our analysis: that the observable social bond is composed of language “moves.” An elucidation of this proposition will take us to the heart of the matter at hand. The question of the legitimacy of science has been indissociably linked to that of the legitimation of the legislator since the time of Plato. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. Research on translating machines is already well advanced.” Along with the hegemony of computers comes a certain logic, and therefore a certain set of prescriptions determining which statements are accepted as “knowledge” statements. A word on this last point. Indeed, this situation is one of the reasons leading to the conclusion that the gap between developed and developing countries will grow ever wider in the future. This makes it invaluable to any serious student of PoMo. These moves necessarily provoke “countermoves” and everyone knows that a countermove that is merely reactional is not a “good” move. What Lyotard presented in The Postmodern Condition was not just a “report” on the future of education but also a road map for this future. “Post modernism and ‘The Other Side’” in Storey (Reader) 429-443, These are the readings (I will send you the two, read 9-17 roland-barthes-the-pleasure-of-the-text.pdf, read 63-73 focault history of sexuality.pdf, read chapters 9 and 10 pages 31-41 Lyotard_-, read p. 1-5 and also p.10 michel-foucault-panopticism.pdf, Debord_Guy_Society_of_the_Spectacle_1970.pdf. This does not necessarily mean that one plays in order to win. Even when its rules are in the process of changing and innovations are occurring, even when its dysfunctions (such as strikes, crises, unemployment, or political revolutions) inspire hope and lead to belief in an alternative, even then what is actually taking place is only an internal readjustment, and its result can be no more than an increase in the system’s “viability.” The only alternative to this kind of performance improvement is entropy, or decline. The true goal of the system, the reason it programs itself like a computer, is the optimisation of the global relationship between input and output, in other words, performativity. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in which the author analyzes the notion of knowledge in postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity. If this were the case, communicational transparency would be similar to liberalism. To the postmodernist, there exists no absolute truth. Young or old, man or woman, rich or poor, a person is always located at “nodal points” of specific communication circuits, however tiny these may be. And it is fair to say that for the last forty years the “leading” sciences and technologies have had to do with language: phonology and theories of linguistics, problems of communication and cybernetics, modern theories of algebra and informatics, computers and their languages, problems of translation and the search for areas of compatibility among computer languages, problems of information storage and data banks, telematics and the perfection of intelligent terminals, to paradoxology. "Answering the Question: "What Is Postmodemism?" Mr. P. Briody. But these truisms are fallacious. Report abuse. To some extent, then, it is already a part of observable reality. Source: The Postmodern Condition (1979) publ. The Postmodern Condition is one of Lyotard’s seminal works on the impact of postmodernism on the modern world. 7190-1454-9 ISBN o-7190-1450-6 pbk. In Parsons’s work, the principle behind the system is still, if I may say so, optimistic: it corresponds to the stabilisation of the growth economies and societies of abundance under the aegis of a moderate welfare state. 1979) introduced the term to a broad public and has been widely discussed in the postmodern debates of the last decade. It can fit into the new channels, and become operational, only if learning is translated into quantities of information.” We can predict that anything in the constituted body of knowledge that is not translatable in this way will be abandoned and that the direction of new research will be dictated by the possibility of its eventual results being translatable into computer language. From this point of view, an institution differs from a conversation in that it always requires supplementary constraints for statements to be declared admissible within its bounds. appears in this book Each language partner, when a “move” pertaining to him is made, undergoes a “displacement,” an alteration of some kind that not only affects him in his capacity as addressee and referent, but also as sender. At any rate, we know that it is unwise to put too much faith in futurology. Legitimation is the process by which a legislator is authorised to promulgate such a law as a norm. The relationships of the suppliers and users of knowledge to the knowledge they supply and use is now tending, and will increasingly tend, to assume the form already taken by the relationship of commodity producers and consumers to the commodities they produce and consume – that is, the form of value. Rather than painting a picture that would inevitably remain incomplete, I will take as my point of departure a single feature, one that immediately defines our object of study. In the postindustrial and postmodern age, science will maintain and no doubt strengthen its preeminence in the arsenal of productive capacities of the nation-states. It would be superficial to reduce its significance to the traditional alternative between manipulatory speech and the unilateral transmission of messages on the one hand, and free expression and dialogue on the other. Read more. “Identifying” with the great names, the heroes of contemporary history, is becoming more and more difficult. The ideology of communicational “transparency,” which goes hand in hand with the commercialisation of knowledge, will begin to perceive the State as a factor of opacity and “noise.” It is from this point of view that the problem of the relationship between economic and State powers threatens to arise with a new urgency. In it, he follows Wittgenstein's language games model and speech act theory , contrasting two different language games, that of the expert, and that of the philosopher. Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. This is what Horkheimer called the “paranoia” of reason. It is clear that what is important is not simply the fact that they communicate information. Abstract. The atoms are placed at the crossroads of pragmatic relationships, but they are also displaced by the messages that traverse them, in perpetual motion. But only to the extent that it fails to challenge the general paradigm of progress in science and technology, to which economic growth and the expansion of sociopolitical power seem to be natural complements. It has been described extensively by the experts and is already guiding certain decisions by the governmental agencies and private firms most directly concerned, such as those managing the telecommunications industry. The university is open because it has been declared open in the above-mentioned circumstances. Here, the sender is clearly placed in a position of authority, using the term broadly (including the authority of a sinner over a god who claims to be merciful): that is, he expects the addressee to perform the action referred to. As for the sender, he must be invested ‘with the ’ authority to make such a statement. Reducing them to this function is to adopt an outlook which unduly privileges the system’s own interests and point of view. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. That is the working hypothesis defining the field within which I intend to consider the question of the status of knowledge. The resulting demoralisation of researchers and teachers is far from negligible; it is well known that during the 1960s, in all of the most highly developed societies, it reached such explosive dimensions among those preparing to practice these professions – the students – that there was noticeable decrease in productivity at laboratories and universities unable to protect themselves from its contamination. Lyotard – metanarrative – modernism Themostwidelycited attempttoeffectivelypose thequestionof whatpostmodern-ism is was provided by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, and his position has been restated in many general texts on postmodernism. The scenario of the computerisation of the most highly developed societies allows us to spotlight (though with the risk of excessive magnification) certain aspects of the transformation of knowledge and its effects on public power and civil institutions – effects it would be difficult to perceive from other points of view. 1979) introduced the term to a broad public and has been widely discussed in the postmodern debates of the last decade. The sole purpose of this schematic (or skeletal) reminder has been to specify the problematic in which I intend to frame the question of knowledge in advanced industrial societies. Excerpts Blackboard. Source: The Postmodern Condition (1979) publ. What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. One’s mobility in relation to these language game effects (language games, of course, are what this is all about) is tolerable, at least within certain limits (and the limits are vague); it is even solicited by regulatory mechanisms, and in particular by the self-adjustments the system undertakes in order to improve its performance. Nevertheless, it has strong credibility, and in that sense our choice of this hypothesis is not arbitrary. Era of fast-paced technological development "age of stupefaction... characterized by discontinuity and fragmentation" (Drolet) Challenging dominant ideologies Lyotard's book focuses on Get this from a library! 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The reopening of the world market, a return to vigorous economic competition, the breakdown of the hegemony of American capitalism, the decline of the socialist alternative, a probable opening of the Chinese market these and many other factors are already, at the end of the 1970s, preparing States for a serious reappraisal of the role they have been accustomed to playing since the 1930s: that of, guiding, or even directing investments. Jean-François Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition in French in 1979, but the intervening three-and-a-half decades cover a period we now call “the contemporary,” even as the label struggles with each passing year to contain all that falls within its temporal and now global bounds. He perceives a postmodern appreciation of difference and creativity as being overshadowed by a global development of performativity that reduces all questions to the instrumental (see Lyotard … You will read each other’s papers in pairs for editing and, Hebdige. Barthes | In The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard provides his most thorough treatment of the postmodern, and for this reason I shall subject this work to a close reading.2 Lyotard continues to use this concept through the mid-90s. Lyotard JF The Postmodern Condition Excerpt Chapters 9 and 10 Pages 31 41 Black from PHARMACY PPB 320 at Kenyatta University 4 people found this helpful. Acclaimed for his innovative investigation of postmodernity, Jean François Lyotard's well-referenced tome, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979) was initially commissioned by Conseil des Universités (Quebec) as an investigation into how society should re-evaluate our acquisition of knowledge in a digital/computerised age. We will have to content ourselves with a glance at the balance sheet, which is possible for us to tally today now that their fate is known: in countries with liberal or advanced liberal management, the struggles and their instruments have been transformed into regulators of the system; in communist countries, the totalising model and its totalitarian effect have made a comeback in the name of Marxism itself, and the struggles in question have simply been deprived of the right to exist. “Science has always been in conflict with narratives. That is why it is important to increase displacement in the games, and even to disorient it, in such a way as to make an unexpected “move” (a new statement). This scenario, akin to the one that goes by the name “the computerisation of society” (although ours is advanced in an entirely different spirit), makes no claims of being original, or even true. Thus: orders in the army, prayer in church, denotation in the schools, narration in families, questions in philosophy, performativity in businesses. 1. of Lyotard 'sown philosophical views, whose combative and prophetic voice, familiar to the readers of his other works, will surprise by its relative silence here. When we examine the current status of scientific knowledge at a time when science seems more completely subordinated to the prevailing powers than ever before and, along with the new technologies, is in danger of becoming a major stake in their conflicts – the question of double legitimation, far from receding into the background, necessarily comes to the fore. I suggest that the alternative it attempts to resolve, but only reproduces, is no longer relevant for the societies with which we are concerned and that the solution itself is stilt caught within a type of oppositional thinking that is out of step with the most vital modes of postmodern knowledge. The second is that if there are no rules, there is no game, that even an infinitesimal modification of one rule alters the nature of the game, that a “move” or utterance that does not satisfy the rules does not belong to the game they define. [Jean François Lyotard] -- This founding essay of the postmodern movement argues that knowledge--science, technology, and the arts--has undergone a change of status since the 19th century and especially since the late 1950s. In the work of contemporary German theorists, systemtheorie is technocratic, even cynical, not to mention despairing: the harmony between the needs and hopes of individuals or groups and the functions guaranteed by the system is now only a secondary component of its functioning. In The Postmodern Condition, which is a Report written some twelve years ago for a Canadian institution, I tried to understand, and to make understood, an event. Of course, certain minorities, such as the Frankfurt School or the group Socialisme ou barbarie, preserved and refined the critical model in opposition to this process. Excerpt. The Field: Knowledge in Computerised Societies. In this light, the new technologies can only increase the urgency of such a re-examination, since they make the information used ‘in decision making (and therefore the means of control) even more mobile and subject to piracy. Even taking into account the massive displacement intervening between the thought of a man like Comte and the thought of Luhmann, we can discern a common conception of the social: society is a unified totality, a “unicity.” Parsons formulates this clearly: “The most essential condition of successful dynamic analysis is a continual and .systematic reference of every problem to the state of the system as a whole ... A process or set of conditions either ‘contributes’ to the maintenance (or development) of the system or it is ‘dysfunctional’ in that it detracts from the integration, effectiveness, etc., of the ‘system.” The “technocrats” also subscribe to this idea. The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers. Read sections 1-30 (there are no, Bring in a draft of your term paper. The first is that their rules do not carry within themselves their own legitimation, but are the object of a contract, explicit or not, between players (which is not to say that the players invent the rules). (2) To lend an ear to an event is the most difficult thing in the world. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. An event is not what occupies the front page of newspapers. Learn more about Orientalism and Civilization and Its Discontents with Course Hero's In the ordinary use of discourse – for example, in a discussion between two friends – the interlocutors use any available ammunition, changing games from one utterance to the next: questions, requests, assertions, and narratives are launched pell-mell into battle. Can you tell stories in a cabinet meeting? What place does it or does it not occupy in the vertiginous work of the questions hurled at the rules of image and narration? His book The Postmodern Condition (1984; orig. This is as much as to say that the hypothesis is banal. Lyotard JF The Postmodern Condition Excerpt Chapters 9 and 10 Black, 1 out of 1 people found this document helpful, . For it appears in its most complete form, that of reversion, revealing that knowledge and power are simply two sides of the same question: who decides what knowledge is, and who knows what needs to be decided? Nothing of the kind is happening: this point of view, it seems to me, is haunted by the paradisaic representation of a lost organic” society. Great joy is had in the endless invention of turns of phrase, of words and meanings, the process behind the evolution of language on the level of parole. This, I think, is the appropriate approach to contemporary institutions of knowledge. Simplifying to the extreme, it is fair to say that in principle there have been, at least over the last half-century, two basic representational models for society: either society forms a functional whole, or it is divided in two. The intent behind the essays from scholars in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is to examine Lyotard's notion of the postmodern condition and its relevance and special significance for the field of education. But there is no need to resort to some fiction of social origins to establish that language games are the minimum relation required for society to exist: even before he is born, if only by virtue of the name he is given, the human child is already positioned as the referent in the story recounted by those around him, in relation to which he will inevitably chart his course. Zizek, ‘From Reality to the Real’, in Storey (Reader). His book, “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge“, considered by some to be the ‘Postmodern Bible’, was published in French in 1979. ; Postmodern condition = post-industrial, computerized society; Postmodernism as "incredulity toward mata-narratives" (Introduction xxiv). It is tempting to avoid the decision altogether by distinguishing two kinds of knowledge. Foucault | But then again, it is not exactly a life goal. The Postmodern Explained to Children Correspondence 1982-1985 @inproceedings{Lyotard1992ThePE, title={The Postmodern Explained to Children Correspondence 1982-1985}, author={Jean-François Lyotard and J. Pefanis and M. Thomas}, year={1992} } That this is so is not subject to discussion or verification on the part of the addressee, who is immediately placed within the new context created by the utterance. Rorty | The Postmodern condition : a report on knowledge. Wittgenstein, taking up the study of language again from scratch, focuses his attention on the effects of different modes of discourse; he calls the various types of utterances he identifies along the way (a few of which I have listed) language games. If the problem is described simply in terms of communication theory, two things are overlooked: first, messages have quite different forms and effects depending on whether they are, for example, denotatives, prescriptives, evaluatives, performatives, etc. Dedicating oneself to “catching up with Germany,” the life goal the French president [Giscard d’Estaing at the time this book was published in France] seems to be offering his countrymen, is not exactly exciting. This last observation brings us to the first principle underlying our method as a whole: to speak is to fight, in the sense of playing, and speech acts fall within the domain of a general agonistics. To help clarify what follows it would be useful to summarise, however briefly, what is meant here by the term pragmatic. Corpus ID: 141636382. As I have already said, economic “redeployment” in the current phase of capitalism, aided by a shift in techniques and technology, goes hand in hand with a change in the function of the State: the image of society this syndrome suggests necessitates a serious revision of the alternate approaches considered. One could similarly imagine flows of knowledge travelling along identical channels of identical nature, some of which would be reserved for the “decision makers,” while the others would be used to repay each person’s perpetual debt with respect to the social bond. Each individual is referred to himself. 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.” ― Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Marx | Habermas | And it does not look as though they wilt be replaced, at least not on their former scale, The Trilateral Commission is not a popular pole of attraction. Manchester University Press, 1984. Welcome to The Postmodern Condition by French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). The other the critical, reflexive, or hermeneutic kind by reflecting directly or indirectly on values or alms, would resist any such “recuperation.”. But this realism of systemic self-regulation, and this perfectly sealed circle of facts and interpretations, can be judged paranoid only if one has, or claims to have, at one’s disposal a viewpoint that is in principle immune from their allure. Second, the trivial cybernetic version of information theory misses something of decisive importance, to which I have already called attention: the agonistic aspect of society. The “producers” and users of knowledge must now, and will have to, possess the means of translating into these languages whatever they want to invent or learn. And each of us knows that our self does not amount to much. It is useful to make the following three observations about language games. Wittgenstein | For it is impossible to know what the state of knowledge is – in other words, the problems its development and distribution are facing today – without knowing something of the society within which it is situated. This is a period of slackening – I refer to the color of the times. This “atomisation” of the social into flexible networks of language games may seem far removed from the modern reality, which is depicted, on the contrary, as afflicted with bureaucratic paralysis. 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