/lit/ - Literature

Lyotard is cuter

yeah, the postmodern condition is amazing like that. the style is terrible and almost impenetrable (so its fortunate that it is only short), but the observations are so prescient and relevant to today its worth going through it slowly.in an essay i argued he resolved the conflict between the narratives of science and culture:

>despite their frequent characterisation as natural enemies, Habermas’ vision may also be seen as strikingly reminiscent of Lyotard’s notion of the “resubordination of economic production to cultural knowledge” whereby “[t]he result would be, once again, a culturally based capability of self-management, one at least partially freed from external coercion. The source would be a recovered relation between scientific and cultural knowledge”.

>In other words, this is the championing of the emancipation narrative (Kant, Habermas), albeit a modified one that accounts for multiplicity as well as its necessary coexistence with the optimisation narrative (sciencefags, fedoracore), rather than the declaration of its final obsolescence.

the incredulity towards meta-narratives

>>2764638
What else am I going to do with all of this vodka?

>>2762458
It's a fragmentary narrative, not a meta-narrative, brah.

Wait, why are you losers waisting your time with Hegel?

oh you