ABSTRACT
As stated in the first sentence of the book the core preoccupation of Jean-François Lyotard’s seminal 1979 essay La Condition Postmoderne concerned the ‘conditions of knowledge in the most developed societies’ (cf Jameson, 1991; Peters, 2008). These, Lyotard proposed, were subject to a process of tectonic (I introduce this term to differentiate more ephemeral*volatile from more fundamental*stable conceptual and normative registers in Strandbrink, 2017) epistemological de-legitimation. Modernist modes of coherence, legibility and authority had thus been superseded by dispersed, multifarious, and less-than-authoritative configurations of knowledge. In this contribution, Lyotard gave philosophical voice to the same dismantling and renewal of old-order-making that had characterised politics in and outside of philosophy, education and culture since the mid-1960s. What ensued?
