Zygmunt Bauman

Shopping/consuming places offer what no ‘real reality’ outside may deliver: the near-perfect balance between freedom and security.

Shopping/consuming places offer what no ‘real reality’ outside may deliver: the near-perfect balance between freedom and security.

Shopping/consuming places offer what no ‘real reality’ outside may deliver: the near-perfect balance between freedom and security.

Shopping/consuming places offer what no ‘real reality’ outside may deliver: the near-perfect balance between freedom and security.

Shopping/consuming places offer what no ‘real reality’ outside may deliver: the near-perfect balance between freedom and security.

Shopping/consuming places offer what no ‘real reality’ outside may deliver: the near-perfect balance between freedom and security.

Let strangers, like the children of the Victorian era, be seen but not heard or if hearing them cannot be escaped, then, at least, not listened to.

The history of time began with modernity. Indeed, modernity is, apart from anything else, perhaps even more than anything else, the history of time: modernity is the time when time has a history.

Wetware made humans similar; hardware made them different.

The logic of power and the logic of control were both grounded in the strict separation of the ‘inside’ from the ‘outside’