Truth 3 - La Condition Postmoderne (Jean François Lyotard)

These sources provide a theoretical exploration of the postmodern condition in relation to knowledge, culture, and power structures, drawing from the works of prominent French philosophers. The first excerpt, from Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, focuses on the concepts of the simulacrum—a copy without an original—and the hyperreal, arguing that modern society is characterized by the production of models that replace reality, examining examples from Disneyland to political scandals like Watergate. The second excerpt, Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition, analyzes how the rise of information technology affects knowledge, arguing that the traditional legitimating "grand narratives" are collapsing, and that  ...