What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination - Jean-Francois Lyotard

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When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

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It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

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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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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.

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