File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 52


Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:46:02 -0500
Subject: Re: legitimation


mark:
>>> What Lyotard tracks in this book is the emergence of performativity as the dominant prescriptive. To make a move in this game becomes about communication, efficiency, context control.
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I follow your explanation I think. thanks for the words. And thanks to
Lois for her page and all, this is all pretty hard for me but
interesting, I read the Hatcher paper, but then couldn't find the
rebuttal when I went back, I learned to work with the vocabulary a bit
better anyway. 

In the quote above, do you mean performativity in the sense of peak
performance of western society? Where the performance of the system is
steered by everyone who is figuring the angles to gather resources --
industry looking for profits, institutions looking for grants,
scientists looking for jobs -- In other words a kind of bottom-line
system?   Is this the overarching -- narrative -- determining the
prescriptives of the scientific game?
Thanks, 
Ed  Atkeson


   

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