The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979).

This session focuses on Chapter 5 of the book Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, by Hartmut Rosa (English translation). The chapter – Resonance and Alienation as Basic Categories of a Theory of Our Relationship to the World – explores two social effects of Rosa’s approach to a material-discursive (radical) relationality that is inherently affective. This is a crucial text to explore the material relationality of bodies, space, and the vibrations of modernity as both a historical category and a pernicious, insidious, infrastructure impacting our living in the world.

This reading group is going to be led by Hélia Marçal (IHA, FCSH-UNL). You can register by emailing Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive a PDF copy of the chapter.

The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).