Bauman, Zygmunt and Raud, Rein, Practices of Selfhood.

Zygmunt Bauman. Individual and society in the liquid modernity

Starting from the postmodern, the philosophical and sociological speculation by Zygmunt Bauman, opens - through the analysis of the phenomenon of globalization - to the meta-level of life, and then circumscribes the most recent thinking on political life, until reaching the liquid modernity: overcoming postmodernity itself. As a result individual, society, ethics, power, religion become those w...

Liquid Surveillance: The Contribution of Zygmunt Bauman to Surveillance Studies1

Liquid surveillance describes well today’s regimes of in ⁄ visibility and is characterized by data-flows, mutating surveillance agencies and the targeting and sorting of everyone. However, the great virtue of Zygmunt Bauman’s work for surveillance studies is that he engages several tasks: he contextualizes what might be called liquid surveillance within the major movements of modern society, re...

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal govern...

Technology, selfhood and physical disability.

Much has been written in recent times of the interface between technologies and the human body. The vast majority of this literature, however, focuses on a body that is assumed to be free of physical disability. This article seeks to address this lacuna by presenting findings from an exploratory study using in-depth interviews with fifteen people with physical disabilities living in the Austral...