Liquid Modernity
by Zygmunt Bauman
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Have to give this a 5 rating on account of its brave and original notion of 'liquidity'. Partly to remove himself from what he saw as the increasingly preposterous outpourings of what came to be known as 'postmodernism', Bauman created the term 'liquid modernity' to denote the ways in which the nature of modernity and its capitalist relations have shifted from their 'solid' structures of the past - jobs for life, Fordist production strategies, fixed capital, low social mobility and immigration,...more
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