Liquid modernity

Description:

In this text, 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.

subjects: Aspect social,  Civilisation,  Communauté,  Community,  Espace et temps,  Individu et société,  Individualism,  Liberty,  Liberté,  Postmodernism,  Postmodernisme,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Postmodernism,  Social history,  Space and time,  Travail,  Work,  Modern Civilization,  Modernism (aesthetics),  Communities,  Social history - general & miscellaneous,  Physics of time,  Social sciences - general & miscellaneous,  Emotions - psychology,  Characteristics & qualities - self-improvement,  Social history, 20th century

Times: 1970-,  20e siècle