LIQUID MODERNITY

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 an d a liquida , 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 narra...[Read more]