Conversation

What does modernity *want*? Hartmut Rosa: From Columbus' discovery of the Americas, space programs, economic growth, to Freud & therapy, modernity's motivational drive is "bringing the world within reach", expanding the possibility-space for everyday life.
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More possibilities sounds good, right? But! "this relationship to the world is accompanied...by a recurring, persistent, and pervasive fundamental anxiety" He writes that blind expansion of possibility fosters "relations of inner relationlessness", i.e. alienation.
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Replying to
Hartmut Rosa's "Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World", which I'm working through & finding shockingly good, again & again
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