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‘Rosa’s “guiding thesis” on this score is that “for late modern human beings, the world has simply become a point of aggression,” an apt phrase that seemed, sadly, immediately useful as a way of characterizing what it feels like to be alive right now.’
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‘More and more, for the average late modern subject of the ‘developed’ western world, everyday life revolves around and amounts to nothing more than tackling an ever-growing to-do list. The entries on this list constitute the points of aggression that we encounter as the world’
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“...the four dimensions of controllability: 1making the world visible, knowable, expanding our knowledge of it 2making the world physically reachable or accessible 3making the world manageable 4making the world useful “
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‘What Rosa calls resonance is a way of relating to the world such that we are open to being affected by it, can respond to its “call,” and then both transform and be transformed by it—adaptive transformation as opposed to mere appropriation.’
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‘ “The basic mode of vibrant human existence,” Rosa explains, “consists not in exerting control over things but in resonating with them, making them respond to us—thus experiencing self-efficacy—and responding to them in turn.”’
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I was just thinking this sounds like Arendt and Sacassas makes the connection... Nice review though he seems almost annoyed that Rosa appears to have independently arrived at Ivan Illich ideas. This newsletter is mainly Illich-stanning 😆
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