Interview – Zygmunt Bauman on the UK Riots

Social Europe Journal: Zygmunt Bauman speaks with Fernando Duarte about UK Riots and their causes: How much of an irony is the fact that the riots concentrated on the looting of consumer goods, given your body of work on postmodernism and consumerism? These riots were, so to speak, an explosion bound sooner or later to happen… Just like a minefield: one knows that some of the explosives will true to their nature sooner or later explode, but one... Read More

Zygmunt Bauman on the London Riots

In his latest article in Social Europe Journal Zygmunt Bauman comments on the London Riots and their causes: ‘These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode – but one can’t say with any... Read More