True knowledge, in this perspective, is always indirect knowledge; it is composed of reported statements, that are incorporated into metanarratives o… - Jean-François Lyotard

For the mercantilization of knowledge is bound to affect the privilege the nation-states have enjoyed, and still enjoy, with respect to the production and distribution of learning. The notion that learning falls within the purview of the State, as the brain or mind of society, will become more and more outdated with increasing strength of the opposing principle.

…Scientific knowledge does not represent the totality of knowledge; it has always existed in addition to, and in competition and conflict with, another kind of knowledge, which I will call narratives in the interest of simplicity.

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...