... in Economie Libidinale . , the most extreme break with modern discourses and the most scathing polemic as a critique of theory, reason, and the discourses of modernity. It celebrates, along with Anti-Oedipus, the micropolitics of desire and the critique of representation. It turns Marx against Freud and vice versa and Nietzsche against both. Desire is bound, claims Lyotard, and fixed into oppressive ... or pure or authentic knowledge. These two narratives of emancipation and speculation are what Lyotard terms as "metanarratives". They subordinate, organize and account for other narrativ...

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