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4 Manifestoes. Provocations of the Modern, p. 24. Cornell University Press, New York 1999.<br />
5 Jean-Francois Lyotard writes in The Inhuman, Standford University Press, 1991, p. 7: 'The striking thing about this<br />
metaphysics of development is that it needs no finality. Development is not attached to an Idea, like that of the<br />
emancipation of reason and of human freedoms. It is represented by accelerating and extending itself according to<br />
its internal dynamic alone. It assimilates risks, memorizes their informational value and uses this as a new<br />
mediation necessary to its functioning. It has no necessity itself other than a cosmological chance.' One could say<br />
that what in philosopohy was to Lyotard soulfully inhumane has, to <strong>Jens</strong> <strong>Haaning</strong> nearly 15 years later within the<br />
visual arts become a cool postmodernism. Both insist on complexity, but there is something else at stake then<br />
merely a question of degrees of pathos, since Lyotard reduces the political through his belief in a pre-political<br />
ethics. The field of the philosophical critique of the subjectís access to itself is, within art, now the terrain of<br />
considerations regarding new ways of constructing rights and value.<br />
6 Zizek, ibid., p. 212.<br />
7 Zizek, ibid., p. 223.<br />
8 Capital, I, p. 482. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1976.<br />
9 Marxism in a philistine. In: Anarkismen, en antologi, p. 94. Bibliotek Rhodos, Copenhagen 1970.<br />
10 Quoted by Kenan Malik, in: The Death of Ideas, New Statesman, April 22, 2002, p. 54.