Lyotard’s ethic of schizophrenic desire is survival within capitalism, not revolution

Evidence

Lyotard’s affiliations here would seem to be with the Anti-Oedipus of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who also warned us, at the end of that work, that the schizophrenic ethic they proposed was not at all a revolutionary one, but a way of surviving under capitalism, producing fresh desires within the structural limits of the capitalist mode of production as such. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Jameson aligns Lyotard with Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus — a vital line of connection for placing Lyotard within French poststructuralism. — connects to: Lyotard naturalized capitalism’s victory as pre-human cosmic natural selection — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 78; Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116

Broader Connections

• Lyotard naturalized capitalism’s victory as pre-human cosmic natural selection #expands (0.85) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 78
• Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria. #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116