aiming for resonance
What interests him is the exhibition as ritual. "A crowd of people is not a crowd but rather a number of individuals gathered in a space who are, contra the experience of an opera or a theatrical performance, not subject to a collective control of attention....Attention is neither monopolized nor homogenized. The exhibition is a very democrati
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David Spinks on Substack
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You can’t try to resonate. Ultimately, resonance is beyond us. Like happiness, it can’t be a goal.
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
hmm. i think it can be a goal, but it’s not one you go about directly. it’s one you go about by creating something that speaks to /you/ and in doing so, finds its people.
We see each release as a chance to increase the surface area of our purpose.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
On people who are INTO it:
Have you ever had the experience, Jerry asks, where you look at something and go, ‘Wow, whoever made that—they were INTO it!’? “That’s what I care about. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about traits or techniques, I don’t care what you do or how you do it—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around peo
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Resonance is radically non-instrumental, Rosa stresses, so it cannot be used to maximize an outcome. It has no goal. Unlike harmony, it allows space for dissonance. In fact, resonance requires a certain friction. Paradoxically, when two people entirely agree on a point, when their experiences are fully congruent, or when an idea doesn’t encounter a... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
friction causes fire. echo chambers don’t (can’t) beget resonance.
The thing about resonance? It’s unpredictable. A highly anticipated Broadway musical, written by a star composer, can sputter at the box office and become the flop of the season. An obscure single from an unknown artist can top the Billboard chart out of nowhere. A Czech writer who has been dead a century can become the hero of generation TikTok. W... See more