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Robert Bellah signaled this shift in the 1980s with the book Habits of the Heart. In it, his team described the shift away from identities formed in relation with local people and places, and toward a greater individualism that turned away from others across the street, a few doors down, or up a flight of stairs.10

Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World

Zygmunt Bauman: Behind the world's 'crisis of humanity' l Talk to Al Jazeera

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The time of a life is no longer structured by sections, completions, thresholds and transitions. Instead, there is a rush from one present to the next and an aging without growing old.

Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time

Identity is not a set of fixed attributes, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning...identity is always a never-completed process of becoming — a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being.

The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them

What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust. These are the social practices that hold a community together. They all have a ritual character. They all require a lot of... See more

NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal... See more

What does politics become when the crowd never goes home?

6 Economic Lessons from Books About Power, Propaganda, and Decline

The stories of violence, crime, and wrongdoing that are constantly told are also fiction. The events may have happened, but the versions that let those events define who we are as a community—such as whether it is safe to go downtown, whether we need new leaders, whether people in this place are friendly, whether we are headed up or down—are all

Peter Block • Community

the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts".