Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life

Evidence

The counterpart of displacement is reembedding. The disembedding mechanisms lift social relations and the exchange of information out of specific time-space contexts, but at the same time provide new opportunities for their reinsertion. This is another reason why it is a mistake to see the modern world as one in which large, impersonal systems increasingly swallow up most of personal life. The self-same processes that lead to the destruction of older city neighbourhoods and their replacement by towering office-blocks and skyscrapers often permit the gentrification of other areas and a recreation of locality. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to Ishiguro: Stevens’s faceless commitment to Darlington Hall is a reembedding that, per Giddens, could have been paired with genuine intimacy but instead becomes total ethical deferral. — connects to: Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247; Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260 (+11 more)

Related

• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.87)
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.86)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.85)
• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.84)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.83)
• Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it (similarity 0.82)
• Declaring oneself host of a locale legitimizes initiating contact there (similarity 0.82)
• Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat (similarity 0.81)
• Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems (similarity 0.80)
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation (similarity 0.79)
• Pre-modern trust is anchored in local place rather than abstract systems. (similarity 0.79)
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation (similarity 0.79)
• System trust underwrites ontological security but yields no psychological reward (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #corroborates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it #corroborates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 347
• Trust operates within already-reduced forms of an anonymously generated lifeworld #expands (0.60)