"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."

Jean-Francois Lyotard, French Philosopher

Now, Self

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"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."

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"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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