This book makes a compelling case for utilising experiences of resonance in various academic and societal fields.
The concept of resonance was first introduced by Hartmut Rosa to foreground the importance of affective, emotional, transformative and uncontrollable experiences in socio-political contexts that he characterizes as alienating. Based on a critical reading of Rosa’s theory and further developed through engagement with Theodor W. Adorno, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler and others, this book introduces the notion of a ‘spectrum of resonance’ which encompasses both critical resonance and affirmationist resonance. This spectrum of resonance is used to analyse various forms of aesthetic experience illustrated with reference to Edgar Reitz’s film Heimat and the music of Nick Cave and Kayhan Kalhor.
The spectrum is also deployed in the fields of museum, memory and trauma studies to show how experiences of resonance contribute to the constitution of political and social identities. The focus here is on memory practices in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the book seeks to decolonize resonance theory.
Author(s): Mathijs Peters, Bareez Majid
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 172
City: Cham
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
1: Introduction: Moments of Resonance
Three Accounts
Aspects of Resonance
Strengths of Resonance
Aims and Structure
Works Cited
Bibliography
Filmography
2: Defining, Critiquing, Defending and Revising Resonance
Defining Resonance
Four Criteria
Critiquing Resonance
Defending Resonance: Rosa’s Response
Revising Resonance
Works Cited
Bibliography
3: Towards a Spectrum of Resonance
Dichotomies of Resonance
A Decentring
A First Tension: Apprehension and Recognition
Affects and Habits
The Pain of Others
A Second Tension: Thought and Knowledge
Thinking and Morality
The Spectrum: Critical Resonance
Arendt and Cooke
The Spectrum: Affirmationist Resonance
Reason and Affect
Works Cited
Bibliography
4: Resonance and Aesthetic Experience: Between Critique and Postcritique
Good Vibrations and Passionate Affinities
Rosa’s Aesthetic Theory
Rosa and Felski on Immediacy: Similarities
Rosa and Felski on Immediacy: Differences
Hegelian Hangovers and Adornian Traces
Works Cited
Bibliography
Filmography
5: The Spectrum of Resonance and Edgard Reitz’s Heimat
Why Heimat?
The Reception of Heimat
Attachment and Heimlichkeit
Heimat and Reitz
Critical Elements
Uncritical Elements
Felski and Immersion in Heimat
Critical and Affirmationist Resonance with Heimat
The Balance between Critical and Affirmationist Resonance
Distance and Otherness
Works Cited
Bibliography
Filmography
6: The Spectrum of Resonance and Amna Suraka
Decolonizing Resonance
The KRI
Amna Suraka
Cultural Resonance
Heroic Resonance
The Prison Complex
The Sculptures
Apprehending Suffering
Ellipses
Affirmation and Critique
An Irresistible Force
Works Cited
Bibliography
7: Conclusion: A Resonant Turn?
Concluding Summary
Bright Horses
Different Kinds of Resonance
New Sincerity and Neoromanticism
The Political
Intercultural Resonance
Works Cited
Bibliography
Filmography
Discography
Works Cited
Bibliography
Filmography
Discography
Index
