We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state - a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a...

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to...

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, hasbrought profound change to all aspects of the...