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 product. - Jean-François Lyotard

Matter asks no questions, expects no answers of us. It ignores us. It made us the way it makes all bodies—by chance and according to its laws.

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.

I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.