Questão 8071a142-b0
Prova:UNEMAT 2017
Disciplina:Inglês
Assunto:Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
LIQUID LOVE: ON THE FRAILTY OF HUMAN BONDS
[…]
The tone of Liquid Love isn’t elegiacal, or not
often. Rather, Bauman’s book is a hymn to what he calls
our liquid modern society. (…) The work of the liquid
modern is likewise never done, but it takes much more
imagination. Bauman finds his hero working everywhere
– jabbering into mobile phones, addictively texting,
leaping from one chat room to another, internet dating
(whose key appeal, Bauman notes, is that you can
always delete a dating without pain or peril). The liquid modern is forever at work, forever replacing quality of
relationship with quantity. What’s the significance of all this anxious work?
For Bauman the medium is not the message - the new
gadgets we use hardly determine who we are. Nor are
the messages that people send each other significant in
themselves; rather, the message is the circulation of
messages. The sense of belonging or security that the
liquid modern creates consists in being cocooned in a
web of messages. That way, we hope, the vexing
problem of freedom and security will disappear. We text, argues Bauman, therefore we are. “We
belong,” he writes, “to the even flow of words and
unfinished sentences (abbreviated, to be sure, truncated
to speed up the circulation). We belong to talking, not
what talking about…So stop talking – and you are out.
Silence equals exclusion.” (…) It is the fear of silence and
the exclusion it implies makes us anxious that our
ingeniously assembled security will fall apart. (…)
Disponível em http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/19/hi
ghereducation.news. Acesso em nov. 2015.
Assinale a alternativa que corresponde às
informações contidas no texto.
LIQUID LOVE: ON THE FRAILTY OF HUMAN BONDS
[…]
The tone of Liquid Love isn’t elegiacal, or not
often. Rather, Bauman’s book is a hymn to what he calls
our liquid modern society. (…) The work of the liquid
modern is likewise never done, but it takes much more
imagination. Bauman finds his hero working everywhere
– jabbering into mobile phones, addictively texting,
leaping from one chat room to another, internet dating
(whose key appeal, Bauman notes, is that you can
always delete a dating without pain or peril). The liquid modern is forever at work, forever replacing quality of
relationship with quantity.
What’s the significance of all this anxious work?
For Bauman the medium is not the message - the new
gadgets we use hardly determine who we are. Nor are
the messages that people send each other significant in
themselves; rather, the message is the circulation of
messages. The sense of belonging or security that the
liquid modern creates consists in being cocooned in a
web of messages. That way, we hope, the vexing
problem of freedom and security will disappear.
We text, argues Bauman, therefore we are. “We
belong,” he writes, “to the even flow of words and
unfinished sentences (abbreviated, to be sure, truncated
to speed up the circulation). We belong to talking, not
what talking about…So stop talking – and you are out.
Silence equals exclusion.” (…) It is the fear of silence and
the exclusion it implies makes us anxious that our
ingeniously assembled security will fall apart. (…)
Disponível em http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/19/hi
ghereducation.news. Acesso em nov. 2015.
Assinale a alternativa que corresponde às
informações contidas no texto.
A
De acordo com o texto, o termo ‘líquido’ utilizado
por Z. Bauman, em ‘Amores Líquidos’, refere-se
à facilidade de transitar e estar a qualquer hora e
em qualquer lugar, graças à tecnologia do século
XXI.
B
Segundo Bauman, na sociedade líquida, a
qualidade das relações é mais importante do que
a quantidade porque os laços duradouros dão
segurança ao sujeito para trilhar um caminho
que se configura como cada vez mais incerto.
C
As mensagens trocadas virtualmente são
significativas porque nos permitem conhecer
melhor as pessoas em situações que só a
tecnologia alcança.
D
Na dinâmica atual da sociedade, o silêncio é
sinônimo de exclusão, portanto, no meio virtual,
a troca de mensagens, as conversas, etc.
precisa ser contínua, não importando o assunto.
E
Para Bauman, os aparelhos que uma pessoa
possui – smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc e os
recursos de interação que utiliza (internet, bate- papo, mensagem, etc) podem sinalizar seu grau
de liberdade e segurança na era dos amores
líquidos.
