Zygmunt Bauman - Liquid Modernity
Just discovered Zygmunt Bauman, who is using the term ‘liquid’ in a way quite similar to me:
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.
I will be reading Liquid Modernity with great interest. Expect a series of quote!
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Michel Serres has a wonderful description of the impact of hydrodynamics on metaphors used in politics, and of the...
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