Modernity is still alive and well!

"the society which enters the twenty-first century is no less 'modern' than the society which entered the twentieth; the most one can say is that it is modern in a different way" - Zygmunt Bauman

I've had conversations with a number of people about how 'post-modern' Scotland is and to what extent modernity still has a grip of us.

To help give me some tools to think about this I bought Bauman's Liquid Modernity. It's a hard read, but I think his hypothesis is simple - modernity is alive and well, albeit it in a chaotic form in which individualization has brought about the "disintegration of citizenship" and thus how we relate with each other and society as a whole has been irrevocably changed.

Comments

[Wood Street Man & Girl]

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Brodie....happy Birthday to you! Hip, hip hurray!

[andrew jones]

love to hear more about it. i havent read the book.

[brodie]

wood street man & girl - because your such nice people I'll forgive you for lowering the tone of this post by "singing" happy birthday. Thank you I had a great birthday.

[brodie]

Andrew - Thanks for stoppig by and leaving a comment. I came across Bauman in a post on Jason Clark's blog. You may have to be patient on this one as I think it's going to be slow reading!

[fernando]

Look forward to your comments - it's one of my favourite books.

[brodie]

Fernando - I think it was you who left a comment on Jason's blog recommendig that he read Bauman. I don't know if Jason took your advice, but on the strenght of your recommendation a bought Liquid Modernity and his short book, "Globalization: The Human Consequences".