Liquid modernity
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book i
eBook, English, 2000
Polity Press ; Blackwell, Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA, 2000
1 online resource (vi, 228 pages)
9780745674414, 9780745657011, 0745674410, 074565701X
881868650
Foreword: on being light and liquid
Emancipation
Individuality
Time/Space
Work
Community
Afterthought: On writing; on writing sociology