resonance
If you tap into an object’s natural rate of vibration, or resonant frequency, it will move: It may vibrate, shudder, or even play a sympathetic musical note—think tuning forks. The same is true, metaphorically, when you present to an audience. If you tap into the group’s resonant frequency, you can move the people listening to you.
Nancy Duarte • HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (HBR Guide Series)
Digital affordances seem to often constitute what Marshall McLuhan would call ‘hot media’ (1967), which require little active participation on the part of the audience, and are of highly predictable nature. Rosa would insist that to achieve resonance, we would want to cool media down to encourage active participation – a prerequisite for resonant e... See more
Vikram • Resonance Theory: How Can Connection Create Disconnection?
resonance is felt. You feel connected and therefore alive. There is emotion to resonance, but there is also affection. It’s not just feeling something that matters. Because this is a form of action, we must be drawn to something. This being drawn to something is engendered by affection. Resonance is a form of action that is moved by affection.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
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
The opposite of resonance is amplification. A choir is the unified expression of voices resonating with each other; a loudspeaker is the amplification of a single voice, excluding all others. A bell resonates, a cannon amplifies. We listen to the bell, we are silenced by the cannon.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Resonance, as a form of action bound in (noninstrumental) relationships, must confess that there are elements of reality that are nongiven and cannot be possessed. Resonance is a form of action that centers on connection, solely for the sake of connection.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
One of the rarest feelings in the world is resonance. That immediate flicker of recognition when something is finely tuned to you. It deciphers your interiority, feeds your innermost desire to feel seen and known.
Nix • the delight of specificity
Resonance is the essential process underlying all relating.