File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0410, message 6


Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Evgeni Pavlov <evpav-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Source of line of thinking


it doesn't seem to be a direct reference to any of lyotard's text, but a sort of *they say*
allusion. as for the actual content of the *quote* i don't believe lyotard has ever or would ever
propose any such position: he might be even read as never really claiming that there is
*postmodernity* as a separate historical period that in any way follows modernity. what lyotard
did say and repeat a lot (contra pomo cond.) is that *postmodern* is the inner working of *modern*
in a variety of ways, see esp. The Inhuman articles. 

evgeni

--- James Ronan <jronan-AT-ronan-associates.com> wrote:

> Question to all:
> 
> I am currently seeking an original source in Lyotard's work of the following
> comments made by Sim in:
> 
> Sim, S. The icon critical dictionary of postmodern thought. Cambridge, Eng.:
> Icon Books.
> 
> "How long postmodernity will last is an open question: as far as theorists
> like Jean-Francois Lyotard are concerned, the modern and the postmodern
> alternate over time, in which case our current phase of postmodernity may be
> no more than a temporary respite before another outbreak of modernity".
> 
> I have not been successful in tracking down this point. Can anyone point me
> in the right direction?
> 
> James Ronan
> Doctoral Candidate
> University of Arizona
> College of Nursing
> 
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