Book 2013

Liquid Modernity

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Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 2013

Social history, 20th century
Postmodernism

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.