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Jean-Francois Lyotard
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
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Lyotard suggests that the way people understand and value knowledge changes when societies move beyond industrial economies and cultures shift toward postmodern ideas. This means that traditional ideas about what counts as knowledge no longer apply in the same way in these new social and cultural contexts.
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