Quotes About Life-world

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Modernity, contrary to its popular connotations, is not the world in a sweepingly transformed state. Rather, as some critics have shown, it is the hybrid and dissonant experience of living intermittently within modernized spaces and speeds, and yet simultaneously inhabiting the remnants of pre-capitalist life-world, whether social or natural.