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When knowledge is only a commodity :
Answer: B
The key's answer is that technology becomes important.
The question draws on Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition. Lyotard argued that in computerised societies knowledge is produced in order to be sold and is valued as an informational commodity. Its legitimation then shifts from grand narratives of truth or emancipation to performativity: the efficiency of the input-output system. Knowledge counts when it improves performance, and that criterion is a technological one, so technology and technical efficiency become central.
'Knowledge is narrative' describes traditional, pre-modern knowledge in Lyotard's account, the opposite of commodified knowledge. 'Information is not knowledge' reverses his point that knowledge is converted into information, and spiritual knowledge plays no part in the argument.
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