The postmodern condition: A Report on Knowledge

Jean-Francois Lyotard

p5 The ideology of communicational "transparency," which goes hand in hand with the commercialization of knowledge, will begin to perceive the State as a factor of opacity and "noise." ...
Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the State through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations.
p6 Transformation in the nature of knowledge, then, could well have repercussions on the existing public powers, forcing them to reconsider their relations (both de jury and de facto) with the large corporations and, more generally, with civil society.

p6 "payment knowledge" "investment knowledge"

P11 two basic representational models for society
1) society forms a functional whole--functionalism Talcott Parsons -- society as a self-regulating system--cybernetics
"The true goal of the system, the reason it programs itself like a computer, is the optimization of the global relationship between input and output-- in other words, performativity. Even when its rules are in the process of changing and innovations are occurring, even when its dysfunctons (such as strikes, crises, unemployment, or political revolutions) inspire hoe and lead to belief in an alternative, even then what is actually taking place is only an internal readjustment, and its result can be no more than an increase in the system's 'viability.' The only alternative to this kind of performance improvement is entropy, or decline."
Parsons: The social systems 1967
sociological theory and modern society 1967

2) marxist current-- the principle of class struggle and dialectics as a duality operating within society

An interesting view of the conflict between these two great currents of social theory and of the intermixing is given by A.W. Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (1970)