The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge - Softcover

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

 
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Synopsis

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. -- .

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About the Author

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Montreal. He is the author of "Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation" and "A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari "(MIT Press).

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

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ISBN 10:  0816611661 ISBN 13:  9780816611669
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1984
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