It was Jean Francois Lyotard, however, who emerges as a champion of difference and diversity, as well as plurality in all theoretical realms and universalizing theories and methods. ... While, Lyotard valorizes image and figure as catalysts which stimulate life, intensifying it in the flow of desire. ... Lyotard's championing of images and figure per se as vehicles of desire and intensities neglects the capitalistic exploiting of images and exhibits a lack of social theory which we find to be a chronic problem not only in Lyotard's but all postmodern theories. ... Lyotard's sym...

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This essay will take as its subject the somewhat feeling-oriented and anti-rationale account of art, which is modern art that is called the Avant-garde, by Jean-François Lyotard. ... Lyotard begins his account of the sublime through the notion of "now". ... Lyotard claims that such a possibility is ensures anxiety, but not only anxiety, it also offers the joy of suspense. ... On this point Lyotard points out that the sublime is a problematic thing to include into a sphere techniques since it is somewhat inexplicable. ... Lyotard's account of avant-garde art is one that is fairl...

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Post modernism came about due to the changing social climate, and the growing multi centralism of the world through global communication and technology. In many ways people believed that the aesthetic quality of society was diminishing. Post modern caused a tsunami of change among popular style and ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions, it lasts. ...

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