“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.”

—  Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.5

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