Living on Borrowed Time: Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo

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, t...