{"product_id":"liquid-modernity","title":"Liquid Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life—emancipation, individuality, time\/space, work and community—and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiquid Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econcludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobalization: The Human Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Search of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis audiobook is expertly read by David Pickering, with audio engineering by Logan Nyman. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46119180828845,"sku":"9781648375798","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/9134\/1997\/files\/LiquidModernity_cvr_web_aud.jpg?v=1779396696","url":"https:\/\/www.echopointbooks.com\/products\/liquid-modernity","provider":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}