What is new in all this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. And it does not look as though they will be replaced, at least not on their former scale.

— Jean-François Lyotard The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977)

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