The Postmodern Condition-- Important Quotes

Providers: Jana Yi-wen Chien;
Kate Liu / 劉紀雯

"Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major - perhaps the major - stake in the worldwide competition for power." (5)

2. Language Games & Performance (Note: "I am not claiming that the entirety of social relations is of this nature -- that will remain an open question." 15)

• ...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).
• if there are no rules, there is no game. . .
• every utterance should be thought of as a move in a game.  (10)

4. Legitimation by Paralogy  and Performance