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LIQUID LOVE: ON THE FRAILTY OF HUMAN BONDS
[…]
The tone of Liquid Love isn’t elegiacal, or not
often. Rather, Bauman’s book is a hymn to what he calls
our liquid modern society. (…) The work of the liquid
modern is likewise never done, but it takes much more
imagination. Bauman finds his hero working everywhere
– jabbering into mobile phones, addictively texting,
leaping from one chat room to another, internet dating
(whose key appeal, Bauman notes, is that you can
always delete a dating without pain or peril). The liquid modern is forever at work, forever replacing quality of
relationship with quantity.
What’s the significance of all this anxious work?
For Bauman the medium is not the message - the new
gadgets we use hardly determine who we are. Nor are
the messages that people send each other significant in
themselves; rather, the message is the circulation of
messages. The sense of belonging or security that the
liquid modern creates consists in being cocooned in a
web of messages. That way, we hope, the vexing
problem of freedom and security will disappear.
We text, argues Bauman, therefore we are. “We
belong,” he writes, “to the even flow of words and
unfinished sentences (abbreviated, to be sure, truncated
to speed up the circulation). We belong to talking, not
what talking about…So stop talking – and you are out.
Silence equals exclusion.” (…) It is the fear of silence and
the exclusion it implies makes us anxious that our
ingeniously assembled security will fall apart. (…)
Disponível em http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/19/hi
ghereducation.news. Acesso em nov. 2015.
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