Bauman’s liquid modernity parallels the financialization thesis

Evidence

For Bauman, online dating was “liquid love” par excellence—­that is, a relational manifestation of the social condition he termed “liquid modernity.” I do not wish to pres­ ent in detail Bauman’s broader account of liquid modernity (the transformation from a modern to a liquid modern world), but it is important to note the association with the financialization thesis (a move from solid rational-­bureaucratic values to an irrational, formless, and ambivalent social order) that are plain to see in his work. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 669

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Bauman’s liquid modernity as the shift from solid rational-bureaucratic to irrational formless social order, and links it to financialization.
• XREF: Useful scaffold for the reader’s core project of connecting financial speculation to social imagination. — connects to: Liquidity and solids mask an ontological polarity within the in-itself; Baudelaire coined the word modernity in 1859 while articulating how poetry survives capitalism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 860; Bauman’s liquid metaphor captures how modern institutions dissolve into time-governed flows — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 571
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 669