1st Edition
Public Intimacy The Dissolution of the Private in Liquid Society
By Carlo Bordoni
Copyright 2026
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society. The text analyses how personal boundaries are increasingly dissolved through digital technologies and how social networks and new media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their most intimate thoughts and experiences in search for recognition and connection in a fragmented, liquid modern world.... Read more
1. In Search of the Lost Community
2. Dissolution of the Private
3. The Exhibition of Intimacy
4. A Society of Singles
5. Populism and Sovereigntism
6. The Primacy of Short-Thinking
Biography
Carlo Bordoni is a sociologist and journalist, and former lecturer at the University of Florence, Italy. He writes for the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera and its literary supplement, la Lettura, as well as for the quarterly journal Prometeo. He is co- author (with Zygmunt Bauman) of State of Crisis (2014), and the author of Interregnum: Beyond Liquid Modernity (2016), The End of Equality (2017) and State of Fear in a Liquid World (2017).
