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Jean-François Lyotard
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Brand & MarketingWho is Jean-François Lyotard in the Agency editorial?
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, known for the book The Postmodern Condition. MetaMarketing.1 names him once, in the paragraph that defines metamodernism, where the edition calls Post Modernism "a term coined by Jean-François Lyotard in 1980".
In short
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, author of The Postmodern Condition. In the Agency editorial he appears only in MetaMarketing.1, in one clause of the author's text. The edition presents metamodernism as the line of thinking that replaces the movement and mindset known as Post Modernism, which it calls "a term coined by Jean-François Lyotard in 1980". The edition then describes Post Modernism in its own words and goes on to quote Zygmunt Bauman. It does not quote Lyotard or name any of his books.
Key facts
- Who was Jean-François Lyotard?
- A French philosopher who lived from 1924 to 1998, known for the book The Postmodern Condition, published in 1979.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Lyotard?
- Only in MetaMarketing.1, in the paragraph of the author's text that defines metamodernism.
- What does MetaMarketing.1 say about him?
- That Post Modernism, the movement and mindset that metamodernism replaces, is a term coined by Jean-François Lyotard in 1980.
Who was Jean-François Lyotard?
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher who lived from 1924 to 1998. He is known for The Postmodern Condition, a report on knowledge in computerised societies published in 1979, which made the word postmodern current in philosophy. These facts come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does Lyotard appear in MetaMarketing.1?
MetaMarketing.1 names him once. The edition defines metamodernism as the coming of age of a new collective consciousness that replaces the movement and mindset known as Post Modernism, "a term coined by Jean-François Lyotard in 1980". The description of Post Modernism that follows, about the computer age turning knowledge into information, is the edition's own text and is not presented as a quotation from him.
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