Liquid Modernity
Book description
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a a heavya and a solida , hardware--focused modernity to a a lighta and a liquida , software--based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and…
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1 author picked Liquid Modernity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Describes in depth a brave new world of uncertain constant acceleration and continued change in institutions and social relations.
I like the way Bauman depicts a condensing resonance, a new way of “being in the world.” Specifically, this is an increasing fluidity and fragmentation of social solidarities, where nothing is secure and where everything can be made redundant.
A world that Ulrich Beck, even before the new century, referred to as “the Second Modernity.”
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