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Sep 21, 2018 · “She” argues that suffering and pain can only exist within a body, and thus any impetus to resistance to the literal programming of phrase regimens (computer programming being the most purified form of what Lyotard had called discourse in Discourse, Figure) would disappear. This surmise is no longer hyperbolic: there are myriad research ...
- Deleuze, Gilles
Deleuze attacks Hegel and others in what we can call—though...
- Levinas, Emmanuel
Emmanuel Levinas’ (1905–1995) intellectual project was to...
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- Derrida, Jacques
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- Deleuze, Gilles
Oct 11, 2022 · French philosopher and sociologist Lyotard (1924–1998) was a fierce critic of universalizing theories and “metanarratives” (narratives about narratives). In his book, The Postmodern ...
Aug 6, 2024 · Jean-François Lyotard (born August 10, 1924, Versailles, France—died April 21, 1998, Paris) was a French philosopher and leading figure in the intellectual movement known as postmodernism. As a youth, Lyotard considered becoming a monk, a painter, and a historian.
- Richard Wolin
May 25, 2017 · A French philosopher of the post-structuralist school, Jean Francois Lyotard (1925-1998) is perhaps best known for his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979). In that work, Lyotard attempted to define the principle aspects of postmodernity in the wake of developing technology.
As the principal correspondent on Algeria for Socialisme ou Barbarie, during the period of Algeria's struggle for independence, Lyotard wrote a dozen essays analyzing the economic and political situation (1956–63), which were later reproduced in La Guerre des Algeriens (1989) and translated in Political Writings (1993). [19][20] Lyotard hoped to...
Jul 26, 2017 · Jean-François Lyotard (b. 1924–d. 1998) is one of the most important critical thinkers of the last half-century. His work is closely associated with post-structuralism and postmodernism, and it has been influential across a wide range of disciplines and fields, including literary studies and critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and politics.
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This is the context in which Lyotard’s early work explicitly on cinema, ‘Acinema’, was received in film studies. Subsequently, through a brief consideration of two films, I will consider the relevance of the figural to an analysis of cinematic space.
