Liquid Modernity

In this work, 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 unreachability 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.