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