🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
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🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Resonance depends on reciprocity: you do things – you have to launch the business, organize the campaign, set off on the wilderness trek, send the email about the social event – and then see how the world responds. It’s hardly surprising that so many
Resonance is inseparable from some feeling of connection to something that speaks or calls out to you from outside your self.
‘The driving cultural force of that form of life we call “modern” is the idea, the hope and desire, that we can make the world controllable,’ writes Hartmut Rosa, the German social theorist we met in the introduction. In his magnum opus Resonance, and a follow-up work, The Uncontrollability of the World, Rosa shows how all kinds of disparate human
... See moreRosa believes that this movement of affection and emotion is essentially dialogical. It is the nature and movement of discourse. Resonance is word and response. This connects to two major themes of my own work. First, it connects to Taylor’s discussion on identity and our base as language animals. Taylor’s discussions of identity are bound in dialo
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