The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new
and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting
individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.
Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to
solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions
and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to
organise their lives. They have to splice together an unending
series of short-term projects and episodes that don't add up to the
kind of sequence to which concepts like 'career' and 'progress'
could meaningfully be applied. Such fragmented lives require
individuals to be flexible and adaptable - to be constantly ready
and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandon
commitments and loyalties without regret and to pursue
opportunities according to their current availability. In liquid
modernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate the
likely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) under
conditions of endemic uncertainty.
Zygmunt Bauman's brilliant writings on liquid modernity have
altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this
short book he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty which
shapes our lives today and, in so doing, he provides the reader
with a brief and accessible introduction to his highly original
account, developed at greater length in his previous books, of life
in our liquid modern times.
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