One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
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. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
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. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years Ive been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you cant write past that. – Jacqueline Emerson