Zygmunt Bauman's Wasted Lives

The Sociology of Everything Podcast - A podcast by Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu) - Wednesdays

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about Zygmunt Bauman's noted work, Wasted Lives (2003), which explores how the process of modernisation inevitably produces waste. In discussing what it means to live in a disposable society, Eric and Louis imagine what it must have been like to have once worked in a fax machine factory. Listeners wanting to send Eric and Louis a fax are advised to send them a telegram instead. Music and sound effects for this episode come fr...