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Living on borrowed time : conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo by Bauman, Zygmunt; Rovirosa-Madrazo, Citlali; Bauman, Zygmunt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on liquid modernity have pioneered a new way of seeing the world in which we live at the dawn of the 21st Century." "Our liquid modern world is characterized by the transition from a society of producers to a society of consumers, the natural extension of which is the society of perpetual debtors. The ruling idea of the society of consumers is to prevent needs from being satisfied and to create demand; its natural extension is to enable consumers to consume more by borrowing. Debt was transformed into a crucial profit-earning asset of capitalism in liquid modern times. The present-day 'credit crunch' is not the outcome of the banks' failure but rather the fruit of their success in transforming the majority of men and women, young and old, into a race of debtors. They got what they were looking for: a society of debtors whose condition of being in debt was made self-perpetuating, with more debts being offered, and more u

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Author

Bauman, Zygmunt; Rovirosa-Madrazo, Citlali; Bauman, Zygmunt

Publisher

Polity Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745647388

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Rating

3.43 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14