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Lyotard e la condizione postmoderna

Frederick Sollazzo (p.sollazzo @ inwind.it)

The table, below, an excerpt of the interview, Postmodernism and the notion of "resistance" , Jean-François Lyotard released in 1994 at the 'Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.

The term "postmodern" means a scientific and technological development that has immediate impact on daily life and politics. The decisive question for me is this: as far as writing, painting, good cinema - short articles of our creativity -, si può dire che è il sistema che li produce? Le automobili si vede bene che le produce il "sistema", che ci sono uomini che si mettono al servizio della produttività, in modo da conseguire una perfezione sempre maggiore. La stessa cosa si può dire per i missili interstellari o per gli aereoplani. Ma quando si scrive, quando si dipinge, quando si fa musica: si può dire che è il sistema a produrre tutto ciò? C'è una azione del sistema, sia pure inconsapevole e invisibile?
Di fatto il carattere invasivo dello sviluppo e della logica della produzione penetra addirittura nei laboratori, nelle redazioni, persino nella camera dove lo scrittore lavora per ottenere, at the end, the product that will sell the system, and circulation.
I believe that the crisis of so-called "vanguard" comes from the fact that the system imposes the following order: "we have had enough of unwatchable painters, writers unreadable, and so on. Let us decipher the products and expendable." I will never forget that a publisher once told me: "Look, we publish it, but give us something readable." What did he mean? He demanded a goods that could be put into service in the cultural market. Here replaces the term "culture industry" means the system penetrates into the head of the painter, the filmmaker or writer to make it do what the system needs, because the culture will remain in use.
Imagine Van Gogh before the choice of yellow or red. It is clear that here there is a job on color, which is not required by anyone except by Vincent himself. But where there is the need for us to persevere in the effort to think, write or make music or painting or to produce images?
I think we are inhabited, without knowing it, from what Lacan called the "thing" that is never satisfied. We lived in the symbolic productions, from the cultural market, from the system, from what requires communication and circulation. The system is not never satisfied with our communicative exchanges with others, there probably will not demand anything, but we feel towards it in due course.
Actually we groped, I would not say to express, but at least to give shape to what it rejects. It 'an act of resistance , and only this measure may be a source of cultural works, including works unnecessary.

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