TY - BOOK AU - Bauman, Zygmunt. TI - Liquid modernity SN - 9780745624105 U1 - 303.409BAU PY - 2000/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Social history--1970- N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index N2 - In this new 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 ER -