XV. The Challenge of Resonance: Problems, Tensions, and Contradictions

Several problems, tensions, and contradictions arise from Rosa’s conception of resonance, notably in relation to the following issues: (1) the relationship between the inherent uncontrollability of resonance and the fundamental controllability of things; (2) the conditions of possibility for resonance as ideal-typical constructions; (3) resonance as a bilateral movement vs. resonance as a multilateral movement; (4) milestones of resonance and milestones of alienation; (5) the relative (in)determinacy of resonance; (6) the interdependence of resonance and alienation; (7) a sociology of our relationship to the noumenal and phenomenal world; (8) the resonance of Heimat and the Heimat of resonance; (9) resonance and the ambivalence of the self; (10) resonance and the taken-for-grantedness of the world; (11) resonance as unilateral, bilateral, or multilateral transformation; (12) (un)controllable sources of resonance; (13) grey zones of resonance and alienation; (14) resonance between ‘positive thinking’ and ‘negative thinking’; (15) resonance as a product of positions and dispositions; (16) the struggle for resonance through various conflicts of modernity; (17) the conditioning of resonance by symmetrical or asymmetrical relationships; (18) the possibility of engineering resonance.