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June 2009, Year I, n. 1

Zygmunt Bauman

"We are living in an interval between two normalities.”

Telos: Your work was really enlightening for those who, like us, work in strategic consulting and try to understand dynamics of our society: your analysis of the modern liquid life, where society modifies itself before behaviors become consolidate procedures. A liquid society that puts an end to certainties, stability and rules. In such a scenario, how do you think we can try to identify a “crate” that could give a form to water, thus to society?

Zygmunt Bauman: Conditions under which we act are now globally determined, but tools of effective action remain, as before, local. As long as such discrepancy between the size of the challenge and the potency of our tools persists, a truly impermeable “container”, a container able to hold the fluid inside, keep it in shape and prevent its contamination, will stay beyond our reach ... more

Editorial

The title of this publication, "Primo Piano, Scala c", namely our address, did not come by chance. Within these walls, we at Telos spend an important part of our lives working, studying and thinking together. Yes it’s true, probably we had to manipulate it a bit, but by putting “primo piano” (first floor) first and by writing it in full we simply meant to express our wish to frame ... more