For Zygmunt Bauman the world is marked by a division between power and politics. While politics is defined by nations, power no longer recognises national boundaries
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Zygmunt Bauman: ‘No one is in control. That is the major source of contemporary fear’
does anyone know if Bauman's written anything that describes this theory in more detail?
Zygmunt Bauman – the killer of the NKVD!
What a stupid analogy. Life is not a flight on an airplane. Really, no control? Please. This is profoundly absurd. There is more Orwellian control today than ever before. You might stand a chance arguing that the distribution of power is different now than a century ago, but in the long run, variations have always occurred. Life was much more uncertain in very basic ways for most of human history (food, war, disease, etc). Our uncertainties today are comparably mild (though perhaps materialists and other nihilists will experience a certain unease or nausea w.r.t. life, but that's a spiritual malady, not a political or social one per se). Uncertainty is the spice of life. Freedom is in the lack of control. Clearly, you think like a socialist, you Marxist filth. Burn in hell, Stalinist propagandist.
BETTER DEAD THAN RED !!!!
just so you guys know, this guy is not a communist. he just talking about the nature of power in contemporary society, he doesnt even give his own opinion in this video?!
Zygmunt Bauman–former officer in the Internal Security Corps (KBW), communist psychopathic butcher. Major Bauman is responsible for killing Polish patriots. STALINIST MASS-MURDERER, who killed thousands of people and is acting now as a celebrity.
I really can't understand, why people name him "Scum" or something. This guyis amazing. Get some books, guys.
Call Bauman whatever you want.
Still he is one of the most, if not the most, interesting and challenging thinkers since the end of the 1980`s and onwards with his analytical, precise and sharp studies of the modern and postmodern society.
You can always try to diminish his works with all sorts of derogative comments but books like Modernity and The Holocaust, The Individualized Society, Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty, Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age are here to stay longer than his political opponents.
Amazing.
Most of the negative comments on here are bs Polish Nationalist Propaganda. I've personally studied Bauman's life, and I live in Poland and know the history well, and the case is that this man's life is a complicated story, and not one that can be boiled down to a couple of bad words. Polish Nationalists have an incredibly narrow view of their own history, and cannot understand the subtleties of diversity.
This is a communist activist who has blood on his hands. He acted in a criminal organization KBW and this is true of the human being
JUST DIE YOU FUCKING SCUM JUST DIE!!!
It is too sad, and surprising that regardless of the content of his sociological argumentation and of course, I guess without even reading a bloody work of Bauman's ouvre, some nationalist narrow -minded idiots talk about 'jewish-communism'. It is a real shame. Now, I see that not only us, Hungarians are that idiotic to spread nonsense nationalism and frustrations on internationally renowned scholars but Polish colleges do that too. Don't you think that this stupid Eastern-European shameful characteristic should be over and it would be much more intelligent , mature and constructive to debate about the issues outlined in the professor's arguing about things that you can actually learn from?? Stupid nationalist dickheads, go home and read 'Sociology after the Holocaust of him at least', you find it on Jstor, and than come back to judge this person based on actual arguments not by your pitiful frustrations! 😉
Professor is murderer of pole and servant of soviet russia, innocent blood has on hands
I saw Bauman in The Swedish Theory of Love. His reflections on modern society and its weaknesses are incredibly accurate.
Zygmunt Bauman was part of Stalinist terror apparatus and helped Soviets to imposed North Korea-like dictatorship on Poland. You will not read about it in New York Times or Guardian.
Bauman u are a communist murderer !
Ah ok so you want us to accept somebody to be in CONTROL right? controlling our lives, our choices, what we can and can not see, just like the sweet north Korea. Uhum. It's incredible how they are not even trying to hide their controlling agenda, they openly use the word. God is in control, He is not controlING but those who trust in Him are veryyyy well secured!
A glimpse of the obvious?
Can someone explain me in normal words what liquid modernity means? And what does this mean if you apply it to surveillance? ( so liquid surveillance). Thanks!!