…Scientific knowledge does not represent the totality of knowledge; it has always existed in addition to, and in competition and conflict with, anoth… - Jean-François Lyotard

The relationship of the suppliers and users of knowledge to the knowledge they supply and use is now tending, and will be increasingly tend to, to assume the form already taken by the relationship of commodity producers and consumers to the commodities they produce and consume--that is, the form of knowledge.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production...

What is new in all this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. And it does not look as though they will be replaced, at least not on their former scale.